{"id":2512,"date":"2015-01-12T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T03:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2015-01-12T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T03:43:15","slug":"workshop-performance-tour-finale-in-kunitachi-by-eri-uchida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150112_2512.html","title":{"rendered":"“Workshop Performance Tour Finale in Kunitachi” by Eri Uchida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kodo Workshop Performance in Kunitachi, Tokyo, on Dec.\u00a020, 2014<\/h2>\n

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We, the “Workshop Performance” tour members, were welcomed by a full-house audience for the finale of our 2014 tour in Kunitachi, Tokyo.<\/p>\n

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It was the first time\u00a0for 3 of our 7 cast members\u00a0to take part in a Kodo School Workshop Performance tour. They were a little nervous during the rehearsals in November, but before we knew it they had become relaxed and at ease performing\u00a0for the children at each school.<\/p>\n

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Children are very honest during our performances. If it’s interesting, they do not move at all, but if we lose their attention for even a moment, they start to chat. And when our sound is too loud, they block their ears. After a month of these performances, we can now physically sense\u00a0the children’s reaction as we play taiko each time.
\nO-daiko<\/span> was particularly interesting. Kenta Nakagome is very powerful and in general his taiko playing makes a very big sound, but now when he plays the big drum in front of children,\u00a0you can hear gentleness in his\u00a0sound.<\/p>\n

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We heard the culmination of that change in sound during our tour finale. When the first beat from the big drum echoed\u00a0out, it made us\u00a0feel a wonderful\u00a0warmth resonate from within our bodies.<\/p>\n

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Through\u00a0these School Workshop Performances, all seven of us performed face-to-face with children, and also taking a head-on look at\u00a0both taiko and ourselves. During our final performance, I really felt those challenges that we had faced together.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Takashi Okamoto
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Kodo Workshop Performance in Kunitachi, Tokyo, on Dec.\u00a020, 2014 We, the “Workshop Performance” tour members, were welcomed by a full-house audience for the finale of our 2014 tour in Kunitachi, Tokyo. It was the first time\u00a0for 3 of our 7 cast members\u00a0to take part in a Kodo School Workshop Performance tour. They were a little nervous during the rehearsals in November, but before we knew it they had become relaxed and at ease performing\u00a0for the children at each school.   Children are very honest during our performances. If it’s interesting, they do not move at all, but if we lose their attention for even a moment, they start to chat. … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}