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Article: Trance and Transformation of the Actor: Japanese Noh and Balinese Masked Dance-Drama.(Book Review)
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- Asian Theatre Journal
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- September 22, 2005
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TRANCE AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE ACTOR: JAPANESE NOH AND BALINESE MASKED DANCE-DRAMA. By Margaret Coldiron. Studies in Theatre Arts 20. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 350 pp. Hardcover $129.95.
This clearly written and feelingly argued book gives an introduction to Balinese topeng and calonarang and Japanese no, using these three genres to explore mask performance as a dissociative performance practice that the author sees as analogous to trance behaviors. As John Emigh notes in his introduction to the work, Coldiron is probably the first to seriously undertaken a comparison of Balinese and Japanese mask traditions (p. xvii). She does not argue for any clear ...