Music and Dance:
The music and dance, like the make up, is designed to be out of the ordinary, or 'Kabuku', the origin word of Kabuki. Once again it's the main idea of Kabuki being an exuberant art, very out of the ordinary. Kabuki involved simple erotic dances, acrobatic and short plays, but it was raised to the status of serious theatrical art by the writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724) and the actor Ichikawa Danjurô.
The music and dance, like the make up, is designed to be out of the ordinary, or 'Kabuku', the origin word of Kabuki. Once again it's the main idea of Kabuki being an exuberant art, very out of the ordinary. Kabuki involved simple erotic dances, acrobatic and short plays, but it was raised to the status of serious theatrical art by the writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724) and the actor Ichikawa Danjurô.
Props:
Kabuki uses a variety of hand props, such as fans (sensu), umbrellas, hand-cloths (tenugui), and swords (glopad.org). Props in Kabuki are used to emphasize the actions and emotions of the characters on stage, as well as make them more relatable with the fans, which were a major part of society. Kabuki props consist of wigs (Gohon-kurama-bin) and large broadswords (Odachi), and sometimes included decorative ropes (Nio-dasuki) wrapped around the torso piece of the costume