Review of SANBASO.

I would like to review yesterday's Sanbaso held at

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum rotunda.

I liked the costume of Mansai Nomura. 

Mansai's costume matched the art exhibited behind the stage.  

I focused mostly watching Mansai's foot work.

Mansai stomped as many as 100 times during his 45-minute performance of the SANBASO.

The SANBASO performance was divided into three parts:
 Prologue: Mansai performed with a fan in his left hand.
 Middle: Mansai performed putting on a black mask of old man and the fun.
Epilogue: Mansai took off the mask and carry a bell in his
right hand and the fun.

Program:

Noh music medley (nohgaku Hayashi)

Fue (noh flute): Rokurobyoe Fujita

Ko-tsuzumi (small hand drum): Atsushi Ueda

O-tsuzumi (large hand drum): Keinosuke Okura

SANBASO

Sanbaso: Mansai Nomura

Senzai: Kazunori Takano

Koken (Stagehand): HaruoTsukizaki

Ji-Utai (Chorus): Ren Naito, Hiroharu Fukada, Shuichi Nakamura

Fue : Fokurobyoe Fujita

Ko-tsuzumi : Yotaro Uzawa

Waki-tsuzumi (second small hand drum): Kensaku Araki, Atsushi Ueda

O-tsuzumi: Keinosuke Okura 

Set and Sanbaso costume design: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Lighting design: Rie Ono

Stage Construction: Watoku Ueno

Production: Odawara Arts Foundation