Shozo Sato
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Shozo Sato, an internationally renowned Japanese master of Zen arts and visionary theatre director, most known for adapting Western classics to Japanese Kabuki theatre.
Shozo Sato is a professor emeritus of Art and Design and former artist-in-residence for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Adaptations of Western classics in Kabuki form include MacBeth, Medea, Othello, Faust, Achilles and the operas, Madame Butterfly and The Mikado.[1][2] His last academic production was Othello's Passion (2006) at Illinois State University.[3] He is also a visiting professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.[4]
[edit] Honors
In 2004, the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure was conferred.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ UIUC announcement of emeritus
- ^ UIUC Archives
- ^ Illinois State University: Othello
- ^ Ikebana for the 21st Century, April 18, 1997
- ^ University of Illinois at Urbana: About Shozo Sato.
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