What is the difference between Kabuki and Geisha?

The difference between kabuki and geisha

is that “kabuki” is a form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies and “geisha” is a Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.

kabuki

geisha

Noun

  • (often capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

Exemple

  • The boy tells her she will find iPhone chargers if she takes five steps back. Here the performance shifts from mere stiltedness to a kind of hateful Kabuki, an affected defiance of how people naturally act: She walks backward, counting her steps, then turns and slaps her forehead.

Noun

  • A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.

Synonyms

  • geisha girl
  • geiko
  • maiko