Shōzō Satō
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 Kabuki Lady Macbeth (2012) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.[3] He is also a visiting professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.[4]
Sato is the author of The Art of Arranging Flowers: A Complete Guide to Japanese Ikebana, published in 1968 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York, NY. The volume was printed and bound in Japan.[5]
Sato officiated at the wedding of actors Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.[6]
Honors
In 2004, the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure was conferred.[7]
References
- ^ UIUC announcement of emeritus
- ^ UIUC Archives
- ^ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In the Krannert Center's 2016-2017 play season, he will return to the University to direct his Kabuki adaptation of Othello, or "Iago's Plot."
- ^ Ikebana for the 21st Century, April 18, 1997
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Arranging-Flowers-Complete/dp/B0006BN1U4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334125332&sr=8-2
- ^ Larry King Now interview with Nick Offerman - Season 1 Episode 176 | Aired on 06/11/2013 [1]
- ^ University of Illinois at Urbana: About Shozo Sato.
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