The World Is Dancing

born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe in 14th-century japan, 12-year old oniyasha has one problem-he doesn’t know what the point of any of it is. why must i step with the left foot here instead of the right? why is one performance good and another, bad? why do people dance at all? it all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of japanese culture to come. a fictionalized account of the early life of zeami motokiyo (oniyasha), the founder of modern noh theater-the world’s oldest surviving theater art-this coming-of-age artist’s journey vividly brings to life a man far ahead of his time during one of japan’s most culturally and socially vibrant eras.