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Returning this summer to more than twenty European venues with a performance never seen outside Japan, Kodo brings new dance, vocal and instrumental elements together to celebrate and explore the transient boundaries between traditional and contemporary, local and foreign, gods and humans, and men and women. With the dramatic power and range of the Japanese taiko (drum) at its core, Ekkyo: Trans-Border delivers a potent, highly refined synthesis that has always been the group's creative trademark. For over twenty-five years, Kodo's ongoing One Earth Tour has carried a message of cultural interrelatedness and peaceful coexistence to the four corners of the globe. Now, with Ekkyo: Trans-border, Kodo once again reaffirms its position as Japan's most acclaimed traditional performing arts company.
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"Traditional rituals recast as theater, and contemporary thoughts about ancient instruments both figure in Kodo's performance, which includes ancient and modern compositions. Yet with tense, angular postures, with stylized, frozen gestures and, in one playful piece, with animal-like scampering and slithering, Kodo' reminds its audience that, above all, its music is a matter of flesh and blood, wood and stretched skin. Kodo' can raise the roof, but the group can also show extraordinary finesse."
The New York Times “Throughout, the devil of it is the combination of the discipline of a surgeon's scalpel with the primitive, muscular endurance of a cavalry charge. The speed and dexterity are as impressive as the physical tenacity is breathtaking.” Chicago Tribune |
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