Tamasaburo Bando performs Kabuki Dance
Tamasaburo
Bando,
Kabuki’s greatest
performer of female roles, appears in the classic dance story, Sagi
Musume (The Heron Maiden). Tamasaburo portrays the resentful spirit of a heron,
who, having assumed the form of a young woman, falls in unrequited love
with a man. Five costume changes take place as, before our eyes, we see
the heron take the form of an innocent young girls and then an older
and more experienced woman. In the end, she is wounded, and, having
resumed the form of a heron, dances out her death thoes.
Tamasaburo is world reknowned for his performances in film and on stage
with Maurice Béjart, Mikhail
Baryshnikov and Yo-Yo Ma. Now in this
staging of one of the great classics of Japan, Tamasaburo shows himself
to be a consummate artist of the Kabuki tradition. 
This DVD features an excellent, comprehensive English language commentary by Oxford University scholar Paul M. Griffith explaining the history and details of the play and of the performance.
SAGI MUSUME is part of a planned six part series of DVDs featuring Tamasaburo.
“…who will forget Tamasaburo, with hands like long translucent
carvings?” New York Times
“ …one of Japan’s greatest stars,” Maurice Béjart
“ I have just seen a great actor…” The Guardian
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