DAIDENGAKU - A performance that consists of dance, music, and acrobatics. It will make your body and soul dance! TOJINZUMO - A spectacle based on a Kyogen, in which a Japanese sumo-wrestler fights in China. Its aim is to destroy languages. SHIN-GIGAKU - A Reproduction of Japanese an ancient masque (under production). A brand-new version of an oriental musical about love (under production). New oriental-style mimicry (under planning). |
Nomura Mannojo is trying to collaborate and interact with the Western world preserving his identity as an Oriental through GAKUGEKI. GAKUGEKI is a new comprehensive art based on Japanese classical entertainment. It consists of 5 elements: dances, languages, masks, Utagaki, and Mono-Mane. "Dances" is embodied through Daidengaku, and "languages" is embodied through Tojinzumo. Both created a great sensation in Japan and throughout the world. Nomura is now producing "Shin-Gigaku" (which is planned to be completed by 2000) to embody the element "Masks". He founded A.C.T. Japan in July 1996 to communicate with a variety of people through GAKUGEKI. |