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Backstage with Nakamura Kanzaburo,
the 18th generation Kabuki actor.
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Nakamura Kanzaburo, preparing his stage character's make-up.
Backstage at Damrosh Park, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2004
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Nakamura Kanzaburo, just left the stage and is doing a costume 'Quick-Change' in the wings, with his dressers, to reappear moments later as a very different character on the stage.
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Nakamura Kanzaburo has changed into a full body Irezumi (tattoo) costume before returning to the stage.
Damrosh Park, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2004
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Nakamura Kanzaburo, after a 3 hour performance, back in his dressing room.
Damrosh Park, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2004
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3 years later, Nakamura Kanzaburo and his troupe were invited for new performances at Lincoln Center.
Dress rehearsal of the Kabuki play 'Hokaido', Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2007
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Kantaro, his elder son, actor, in the make-up room,
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2007
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Shichinosuke, his younger son, preparing for the stage
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2007.
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Kantaro, Shichinosuke and the actor Kamezo in mirrors.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2007.
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Nakamura Kanzaburo and his troupe were the guest of Honor at the
International Theater Festival in Sibiu, Romania in 2008.
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Nakamura Kanzaburo with actor Yajuro, rehearsing their Kabuki play in the borrowed stage of a just ended run of a German 'Faust" opera, making for a mismatched set for a few days, while a temporary Kabuki stage is being built inside a neighboring metals factory.
Sibiu, Romania, 2008.
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Kabuki troupe actors on the side of the borrowed 'Faust' set, during rehearsals.
Sibiu, Romania, 2008.
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Yajuro, the Kabuki actor, concentrating backstage, before going onstage.
Sibiu, Romania
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Senjaku, the Kabuki actor, in the wings.
Sibiu, Romania
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Shichinosuke, his younger son, in Onegata costume (Woman's role) before going on stage, opening night.
Sibiu, Romania
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Kanzaburo, moments before going on stage, in the wings of the newly built temporary Kabuki theater,
inside the available space of a metals factory.
Sibiu, Romania
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Kanzaburo during a sword fighting scene.
Sibiu, Romania
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Nakamura Kanzaburo, cleansing his soul with buckets of water, after having had to kill his character's father in a fight.
Sibiu, Romania
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Curtain call
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On Kanzaburo's one day off, I asked if I may do a personal portrait of him in a 16th century Eastern Orthodox church
that had given us permission. Sibiu, Romania, 2008.
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Nakamura Kanzaburo in a 16th century Eastern Orthodox church.
Sibiu, Romania
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Nakamura Kanzaburo in a 16th century Eastern Orthodox church.
Sibiu, Romania