Abstrakt This essay offers an insight into the way of exploring dance in the nō theatre as the “language of gestures”. It concerns the dance units kata as a subject of structural and then semantic analysis. My research is based on the analysis of dance kuse (jo no mai) in the piece Hagoromo. I compare the semantic meaning of each kata movement to the poetry sung during the dance and explain the use of this move¬ment. This shows the connection between the choreographer’s work with movement according to poetry. I claim that the dance elements kata (fixed number and meaning) in nō are significant as semantic units and thus create a unique symbolic language.
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Článek vyšel v časopise Živá hudba 2015/6
