Talk
The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan with Joan Jonas
5 Jan 2017
Event times
6:30 PM
Cost of entry
Tickets: $15/$12 Japan Society members, seniors & students.
Address
- 333 East 47th St
- New York
New York - 10017
- United States
Travel Information
- M15 to 47th Street, M101 or M102 north on Third Avenue to 47th Street, or crosstown M50 (on weekdays) or M42
- 4,5,6,7 and S at Grand Central Station; 6 at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue; and the E, M at Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street. Public parking available nearby.
Event map
Acclaimed multimedia artist Joan Jonas hosts an intimate book club to discuss The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (1917),
About
Ezra Pound’s and Ernest Fenollosa’s English translation of select noh plays, which W. B. Yeats consulted when writing At the Hawk’s Well over a century ago. Jonas describes the profound impact that this publication has had on her practice since the 1970s and its continued resonance in her work today.