{"id":327,"date":"2017-10-03T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=327"},"modified":"2022-09-07T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:40:05","slug":"the-origins-of-asian-theatrical-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/the-origins-of-asian-theatrical-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Asian Theatrical Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Asia, as in many other regions in the world, the origins of theatre and dance can be traced back to several early, archaic types of performance. In Asia they include<\/p>\n

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  1. early religious rituals,<\/li>\n
  2. ancient movements imitating animals, or so-called animal movements,<\/li>\n
  3. the martial arts, and<\/li>\n
  4. the art of storytelling. Later,<\/li>\n
  5. the\u00a0complex behaviour codes of different periods, the most intricate of them being court etiquette, also left their undeniable marks on theatre and dance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In fact, most of the so-called \u201cclassical\u201d styles of Asian performing arts (formulated roughly from the 13th<\/sup> to the 19th<\/sup> centuries) can be analyzed or deconstructed so that these original \u201croot\u201d traditions can be recognised. In the later \u201cclassical\u201d traditions these root traditions are, however, intermingled with each other in surprisingly various ways.<\/p>\n

    1. Rituals<\/h2>\n\n\t\t