Sh?z? Sat? is a professor emeritus of the College of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder and former director of Japan House, and a former artist-in-residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts .
He is an internationally renowned Japanese master of Zen arts and visionary theatre director, most known for adapting Western classics to Japanese Kabuki theatre.
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Biography
Sat? first arrived at the University of Illinois in 1964 as a visiting artist. In 1968, he founded the Japanese Arts and Culture Program, where he taught classes in traditional Japanese arts, such as calligraphy, sumi-e, ikebana, zen aesthetics, and tea ceremony.
He is known for adapting western theater to a Kabuki style. Some of his adaptations include MacBeth, Medea, Othello, Faust, Achilles and the operas, Madame Butterfly and The Mikado. His last academic production was Kabuki Lady Macbeth (2012) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
He is also a visiting professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Sat? is the author of The Art of Arranging Flowers: A Complete Guide to Japanese Ikebana, published in 1968 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York, NY. The volume was printed and bound in Japan.
Sat? officiated at the wedding of actors Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.
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Honours
In 2004, the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure was conferred.
References
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