Tadashi Suzuki
Japanese avant-garde theatre director, writer and philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tadashi Suzuki (鈴木 忠志, born June 20, 1939) is a Japanese avant-garde theatre director, writer, and philosopher.
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Native name | 鈴木 忠志 |
Born | Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan |
Occupation | Theatre director, playwright |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Waseda University |
Genre | Angura |
He is the founder and director of the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), and organizer of Japan’s first international theatre festival (Toga Festival). With American director Anne Bogart, he co-founded the Saratoga International Theatre Institute in Saratoga Springs, New York.
He is the creator of the "Suzuki method" of actor training,[1][2] which emphasizes stylized body work and physicality drawing from dance and elements of traditional Japanese theater.
Suzuki was the general artistic director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) (1995~2007), an international committee member of the Theatre Olympics; a founding member of the BeSeTo Festival (演劇祭),[3] jointly organized by leading theatre artists from Japan, China and Korea; and, chairman of the Board of Directors for the Japan Performing Arts Foundation, a nationwide network of theatre professionals in Japan.