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"Taking a break from your career or changing your career to find a way that best suits your goals / passions. Don't be afraid of your career going off the track, especially for parenting, as long as you do something you love, you can find an even better track for yourself."
I have been fortunate enough to be working with people who are not biased by gender. However, I do find that stereo-typical conception of gender roles are still dominant in Japan.
On day-to-day basis, I try to promote equity awareness by prompting attention to the issue. Because many people are unknowingly biased, I try to point out when I notice unintentional comments or behavior that would be seen against equity in a way that is not confrontive. Also, two out of the three directors of my organization are female (including myself), and we are also culturally and ethnically diverse.
Taking a break from your career or changing your career to find a way that best suits your goals / passions. Don't be afraid of your career going off the track, especially for parenting, as long as you do something you love, you can find an even better track for yourself.
Through introducing traditional theater, we have worked to facilitate communication between cultures of different times or places. Since we work with classical Japanese text in our work (we introduce noh theater from multi-cultural perspectives to international audience), we often deal with ideas or phrases that are based on old ideals that go against equity. Thus, it is always challenging to try to convey the aesthetics of noh while being sensitive to such issues. Also, we have worked with and plan to increase opportunities to work with female noh performers, who are still few in proportion.
Julia watched her first noh play when she was thirteen and has been an amateur practitioner of noh theater for over a quarter of a century.
She currently organizes and leads workshops and tours to introduce noh through multicultural perspectives by exploring places and people related to the rich traditions of Japanese performing arts in Kyoto.
