goes without saying—for that is the show we are seeing at this
moment, an American show that pretends to be created from
a Japanese perspective, with a Japanese dancer who can turn
his body into Kabuki and cakewalking shapes in the same
instant.
WHAT KIND OF DRAMA IS THIS? 205
Figure8. Admiral Perry sets foot on Japanese soil. Haruki Fujimoto
in the “Lion Dance,” from the original production of Pacific Over-
tures. Used by permission of the photographer, Martha Swope.