Another speciality of the Kabuki stage is a footbridge (hanamichi) that extends into the audience.
The kabuki crawl by our political leaders toward a fiscal cliff solution is painful to watch.
The Kabuki stage is equipped with several gadgets, such as revolving stages and trapdoors through which the actors can appear and disappear.
Iran, you would say, cut out the Kabuki dance that passes for negotiation or discussions of the nuclear program, but at the same time talk to Iran, have real diplomacy with Iran.
In the Kabuki tradition of men playing female characters, Mr. Sawamura's gestural dances, full of delicate facial expressions and artful costume manipulation, marvelously capture the wiles of the serpent-demon maiden hoping to enter the temple that figures in the classic play.
WSJ: Giselle at the D?j?ji Temple | Yasuko Yokoshi | Bell | New York Live Arts | By Robert Greskovic
The deregulation kabuki drama also includes the "break-up" of Japan's telecommunications giant, NTT.
After 1868, when Japan opened to Western influence, actors strove to heighten the reputation of Kabuki among the upper classes and to adapt the traditional styles to modern tastes.
As the unnamed pivotal main character of "Bell" and the only one wearing vividly theatrical, Kabuki-inspired costuming and wigs as opposed to the plainer dress and hair-styling of the other performers Ms. Yokoshi enacts the ways of Kabuki recitation and dance without fully embodying them.
WSJ: Giselle at the D?j?ji Temple | Yasuko Yokoshi | Bell | New York Live Arts | By Robert Greskovic
She then leads us to the Sundance Kabuki Theatre - a cinema with a film festival vibe, showing independent films as well as blockbusters, where she tucks into a cocktail as she sits down to watch a film.
The change would essentially do away with the meaningless debt ceiling debates that have become ritual kabuki in Washington over the past few generations.
Today, Kabuki is the most popular of the traditional styles of Japanese drama.
Of course, this scaremongering is always a charade, a Kabuki play with the outcome predetermined by the initial conditions: The Debt Limit will be raised.
In most of Japan's folk art of the day including pulp fiction, puppet theatre, storytelling, kabuki, scroll painting and woodblock prints vengeful spirits were among the most popular motifs.
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It is to avoid such oversight that companies usually leave room for the price to rise in their own Kabuki-dance negotiations to show it was an arms-length transaction.
Why this costly and embarrassing kabuki when we both know the facts, and would even admit privately that all this harassment is only the government's way of showing that it is "fair, " of demonstrating that it will equally humiliate anyone in order to show its high-mindedness and sense of justice?
On paper, the ingredients inspiring "Bell" an 18th-century Kabuki play concerning a ferociously vengeful maiden who has been spurned in love, mixed with the musical and dramatic aspects of a 19th-century ballet classic about a deceived and broken-hearted peasant maid promise a concoction well-suited to Ms. Yokoshi's often outlandish theatrical creations.
WSJ: Giselle at the D?j?ji Temple | Yasuko Yokoshi | Bell | New York Live Arts | By Robert Greskovic
My boss at CNET made the idea of doing an obituary an annual Kabuki ritual.
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But sadly there were no girls with dresses on-fire, no waitresses with Kabuki makeup, no men with the strange kind of facial hair Wes Bentley as Seneca, the game master, sports in the movie.
The consternation over Hagel's confirmation has been "kabuki theater, " said David Rothkopf, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.
Originally, both men and women acted in Kabuki plays, but eventually only male actors performed the plays: a tradition that has remained to the present day.
This kabuki ritual is disguising a battle that is under way between the 19 top banks, their shareholders and the government.
Kabuki is a Japanese traditional theatre form, which originated in the Edo period at the beginning of the seventeenth century and was particularly popular among townspeople.
Kabuki plays are about historical events and moral conflict in relationships of the heart.
While the designer himself favors chunky, in-your-face styles such as a ring of his that features a Japanese Kabuki mask, he says such conversation pieces work best for weekends and may not be the best idea for most office ensembles.
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