Description: What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural history of non-elite spectacle in Heian Japan (794-1185)--boisterous dengaku music and dance, daring sangaku acrobatics, and the infectious lyrics of imayō songs--that challenged and fascinated the aristocracy.
Brief description: Ashton Lazarus is Assistant Professor of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah.