Kodo – the world’s foremost professional taiko company, which has played a major role in popularizing modern taiko drumming – will present its newest program, DADAN, across the United States for the ...

There are many angles one could take when writing about an ensemble like Kodo: its venerable artistic director, its preservation of traditional arts, its almost monastic devotion to training and ...

The audience sits in complete darkness. A silver spotlight shines on a lone taiko drum. As a drum stick shakes imperceptibly, a hand firmly comes down onto a surface. A low thump reverberates through ...

Sacred Trees, Demon Dances, and a Bold Beat: Japan's Onna-Kodomo Comes to North America with Innovative New Pieces and Staging, January-March 2011 Drums did more than make music in Japanese tradition.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Japan’s drum ensemble Kodo on its One Earth Tour 2019, exploring the Japanese taiko drum through its energetic, and meticulously choreographed performance, Evolution, 7 p ...

Sado, Japan, is not an easy trip. After a 14-hour flight to Tokyo, you’ll have to hop a two-hour bullet train ride followed by a two-and-a-half-hour ferry trip to get there. But on this isolated ...

KODO, the world’s most professional taiko ensemble in the world, have played an important role in popularizing modern taiko drumming. Since the group’s debut at the Berlin Festival in 1981, Kodo have ...

When the Japanese taiko drumming ensemble Kodo debuted at amusic festival in 1981, organizers thought they had a good thing.Twenty-five years later, they’re sure of it. Kodo, which visits Escondido ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the hazy mid-morning sun, dappled light dances across the dank woodland soil as the tips of gangly black pines sway gently in the ...