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Peking
Opera & Kabuki Focus of Pomona College Lectures
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An inside look at “Peking Opera and Kabuki: Color, Drama,
Meaning” is the subject of a pair of lectures at Pomona
College on Wednesday, March 23, at 4 p.m. Sheng Hua, artist
and author of The Illustration of Facial Makeup in Peking
Opera, will concentrate his lecture on the artistic facial
makeup in Peking opera. Pomona College Professor Leonard
Pronko, who regularly performs Kabuki, will discuss the art
of Kabuki and present a comparison between the two Asian art
forms.
Sheng, a distinguished expert in Peking Opera’s facial
design and makeup, began his study and training in Peking
Opera at the age of twelve. After eight years of strict
professional training under well-known masters at China
National School of Traditional Opera in Beijing, he
performed in many acclaimed operas before devoting himself
to the study of facial design and makeup art. Under the
austere training of Liu Zengfu, the greatest master in opera
makeup art, he achieved enormous success as a master of this
art. Sheng has been interviewed about facial makeup art by
Hong Kong’s Wen Hui Daily Newspaper, China Daily,
Chinese Theatre magazine, CCTV, BTV and many other
news media. His publications on facial design and makeup
have earned him great recognition and popularity. His
artwork is collected by many well-known individuals and
artists. A member of Beijing Traditional Art and Literature
Masters’ Association, he continues to maintain, create, and
innovate the art he loves.
Pronko became the first foreigner to study at the Kabuki
training program of the National Theatre of Japan and, in
1986, received the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his work
introducing Kabuki to the West. An internationally
recognized Kabuki expert, he is the author of Theater
East and West (1967) and Guide to Japanese Drama
(second edition, 1984), among other publications. He is also
a co-editor of Shakespeare East and West (1996). In
1997, he received the Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in
Higher Education award from the Association for Theatre in
Higher Education.
The lectures will be held in Pomona’s Hahn Building (Room
101), 420 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont. The event is organized
by the Pacific Basin Institute and co-sponsored by Pomona’s
Department of Theatre and Dance and the Bernard Chan
Visiting Asian Scholars Fund. For more information, call
(909) 607-8065.
The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College is dedicated
to expanding and enhancing comity and shared knowledge among
the nations and cultures on the Pacific Ocean. A valued
study, media production and research center, PBI also offers
books, films and lecture programs to a general as well as
academic audience. Pomona College has been a leader in Asian
Studies among American college and universities since the
turn of the past century. |
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