Ainu Ceremonial Music and Dance: "Restored" and Recontextualized

Abstract

At the Ainu Culture Festival I attended in 2010, an ensemble of twelve young adults called Team Nikaop performed what they describe as “restorations” (fukugen) of Ainu ceremonial music and dance incorporating historical videos and other documents. This article explores the way that images of Ainu ceremonial music and dance used in Japanese museums and tourist centres throughout the 20th century are recontextualized through subtle gestures in Team Nikaop’s restorations onstage and behaviour offstage and in everyday life to balance old stereotypes with new meanings that contribute to the festival’s goal of garnering respect for Ainu culture.

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