New students will learn a number of short dances and chants from Noh plays, learn about the musical instruments associated with Noh, and work briefly with a Noh mask. Noh combines dance, chant, music and mask in a powerful and stately performance experience requiring intense inner concentration and physical discipline. Limited scholarship money may be available based on artistic merit and need. If funding is secured, priority will go to returning students. Housing is located on the campus of Bloomsburg University in their graduate student apartments.
All apartments have kitchens, private bedrooms, a sitting area, and dining area.
Bloomsburg also boasts several good and reasonably priced restaurants within walking distance of the training studio. West on I-80, exit 35. Teichiku Records, Tokyo. In addition to performing and teaching in Japan, he is a professor at Mushashino Women's College in Tokyo where he teaches Asian theatre and music. He also runs an ongoing Noh Training Project for non-Japanses living in Tokyo.