{"id":3575,"date":"2015-07-03T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2015-07-03T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T05:04:41","slug":"beating-the-drums-playing-the-drums-by-koki-miura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150703_3575.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beating the Drums, Playing the Drums&#8221; by Koki Miura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150703_3575.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150703_3575.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Beating the Drums, Playing the Drums&#8221; by Koki Miura\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">June 21, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We have just finished our &#8220;DADAN 2015&#8221; concert series in Tokyo and now\u00a0we are straight back into our &#8220;Eternity&#8221; tour around Japan.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/02-DADAN2015_0619-s1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/02-DADAN2015_0619-s1-340x226.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EIEN_SADO_2879-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EIEN_SADO_2879-s-340x226.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;DADAN&#8221; is an explosive, pulsating, non-stop hard-hitting performance. &#8220;Eternity&#8221; is performed with control and fine attention to detail. These two performances are so different, and by performing both of them back to back, we can feel just how far our range of expression is broadening with time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EIEN_BUNKYO_6003-f-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EIEN_BUNKYO_6003-f-s-680x452.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tamasaburo Bando, our artistic director, said he wanted this production to express the workings of nature. Personally, I think that nature is inherently perfect and beautiful and, as a consequence, the &#8220;Eternity&#8221; performance is an extraordinarily beautiful production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EIEN_BUNKYO_10043-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EIEN_BUNKYO_10043-s-340x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want our audiences to enjoy just being in the same space as our performance. I want it to make them feel good. Please come along and experience the natural realm we create in &#8220;Eternity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/kokimiura_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6307 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kokimiura_s.jpg\" alt=\"kokimiura_s\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150607oet.jpg\" alt=\"20150607oet\" width=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cKodo One Earth Tour 2015: Eternity\u201d Japan Tour (June\u2013July, Sep.\u2013Oct.)<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cc6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20150606oet_en.html\">http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20150606oet_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cc6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/index_en.html#schedule17b\">[June\u2013July] Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Chiba, Osaka, Nagano, Kyoto, Ehime, Hiroshima<\/a><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cc6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/index_ja.html#schedule17b\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cc6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/index_en.html#schedule19a\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">[Sep. Oct.] Chiba, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Yamagata, Iwate, Akita, Shizuoka, Aichi, Hyogo, Tottori, Yamaguchi, Fukuoka, Kagoshima<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 21, 2015 We have just finished our &#8220;DADAN 2015&#8221; concert series in Tokyo and now\u00a0we are straight back into our &#8220;Eternity&#8221; tour around Japan. &#8220;DADAN&#8221; is an explosive, pulsating, non-stop hard-hitting performance. &#8220;Eternity&#8221; is performed with control and fine attention to detail. These two performances are so different, and by performing both of them back to back, we can feel just how far our range of expression is broadening with time. Tamasaburo Bando, our artistic director, said he wanted this production to express the workings of nature. Personally, I think that nature is inherently perfect and beautiful and, as a consequence, the &#8220;Eternity&#8221; performance is an extraordinarily beautiful production. &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150703_3575.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,102,6,113,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}