Festival Organisers and Partners
Curated and produced by mu:arts and International Noh Project Committee, Tokyo in partnership with Kings Place, Japan Foundation and the Noh Theatre Research Institute, Hosei University.
Join the conversation with the eminent scholar of neuroesthetics Professor Semir Zeki (UCL), and neuroscientist and Noh practitioner Professor Atsushi Iriki (Riken Institute, Japan). At this talk, they will discuss the relationship between the mechanisms of the brain that create illusions, the arts, and the 650-year-old tradition of Noh.
In addition, Professor Reiko Yamanaka of the Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University will talk about ‘Mugen Noh’, conceived by the fourteenth-century Noh playwright and actor Zeami. In these plays, after an interlude, a restless spirit emerges in a dream of a travelling monk, telling the story of its unfulfilled life, transporting audiences to a world of illusion.
Curated and produced by mu:arts and International Noh Project Committee, Tokyo in partnership with Kings Place, Japan Foundation and the Noh Theatre Research Institute, Hosei University.
Arts Council England, Arts Council Tokyo, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Yakult.