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Asian theatre

Zeami's three-phase rhythm of slow opening, development and rapid climax that structures a Noh programme, a play and even single movements.

In Asian theatre, jo-ha-kyu refers to Zeami's three-phase rhythm of slow opening, development and rapid climax that structures a Noh programme, a play and even single movements. This meaning comes from Zeami (1984) in On the Art of the No Drama.[1]

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References

Zeami. (1984). On the art of the Nō drama: The major treatises of Zeami (J. T. Rimer & M. Yamazaki, Trans.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691065823

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