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Similarities of southeast asian theater forms and east asian theater forms.​

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Similarities of southeast Asian theater forms and east Asian theater forms.​

Many of these theatrical forms include drama, song, dance, juggling, acrobatics, puppetry, martial arts, and more. For the most part, the theatre of this region is one of spectacle. Southeast Asian arts, the literary, performing, and visual arts of Southeast Asia. Although the cultural development of the area was once dominated by Indian influence, a number of cohesive traits predate the Indian influence.

The oldest theatrical forms in Asia include a Chinese theatre that incorporates music, acrobatics, and clowning. This theatrical form appeared around 1,500 BCE, predating the Greek Theatre by roughly 1,000 years. In the Qin dynasty (221 - 207 BCE) in China, court and public festivals called baixicombined mimes, jugglers, acrobats, magicians, singers, and martial arts.

Although the cultural development of the area was once dominated by Indian influence, a number of cohesive traits predate the Indian influence.

  • From ancient times dance and theatre have played a vital role in China, Korea, and Japan. Many performances of plays and dances were closely tied to religious beliefs and customs. In China, records from about 1000 BCE describe magnificently costumed male and female shamans who sang and danced to musical accompaniment, drawing the heavenly spirits down to earth through their performance.
  • Throughout East Asia the descendants of magico-religious performances can be seen in a variety of guises. Whether designed to pray for longevity or for a rich harvest or to ward off disease and evil, the rituals of impersonation of supernatural beings through masks and costumes and the repetition of rhythmic music and patterns of movement perform the function of linking humans to the spiritual world beyond. Hence, from the earliest times in East Asia, dance, music, and dramatic mimesis have been naturally fused through their religious function.
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