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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the Japanese language, the word " Kodo" has two meanings. It can mean "heartbeat" — the fundamental source of all rhythm. However, the characters used for the group's name have a different meaning, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...