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"Kodo One Earth Tour: Mystery," the second work directed by artistic director Tamasaburo Bando, will tour throughout Japan from May 2014. This performance brings a wondrous and sacred realm to the stage using the "mystery" created by folk arts since ancient times, presenting a world of darkness, light and reverberations with theatrics and new forms of expression.
This time, I created this piece with the idea that theatre-goers would experience the mood of mystery that they meet at a temple or a shrine, or when you go into the forest - places that are removed from daily life. A feeling that emerges from deep darkness. At the end of the show, I'll be happy if they leave with a sense of purification.
Tamasaburo Bando
Photo: Takashi Okamoto
Amidst reverberations like rumbles in the earth large serpents coil, demons and lions move wildly. They surface from the gloomy dark, eerie at times, and in some respects, even nostalgic… This work fuses Kodo's real worth, the dynamism of taiko expression, with the wondrous beauty and true charm that lie within rituals expressing the worship of myriad gods and reverence for nature that have been traditions in Japan since ancient times. This performance takes you on a voyage to the extraordinary, to a mysterious realm that lies in the beyond.
We hope you will enjoy Kodo's latest production, the profound world of "Mystery."
Performance Schedules: May - July 2014
- May 10 (Sat)Houzan Hall (Kagoshima Prefectural Culture Center), Kagoshima City
- May 11 (Sun)Hyuga Bunka Koryu Center, Hyuga City, Miyazaki
- May 13 (Tue)Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Fukuoka City
- May 15 (Thu)Iki Bunka Hall, Iki, Nagasaki
- May 21 (Wed)Sunport Hall Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Kagawa
- May 23 (Fri)Nanyo Bunka Kaikan, Uwajima, Ehime
- May 24 (Sat)Matsuyama Shimin Kaikan Dai-Hall, Matsuyama, Ehime
- May 30 (Fri)Minami-za Kabuki Theater, Kyoto City
- May 31 (Sat)Minami-za Kabuki Theater, Kyoto City
- June 1 (Sun)Minami-za Kabuki Theater, Kyoto City
- June 4 (Wed)Chutan Bunka Kaikan, Ayabe, Kyoto
- June 6 (Fri)Hokuto Bunka Hall Dai-Hall, Nagano City
- June 7 (Sat)Kashiwazaki Shimin Kaikan Alforet, Kashiwazaki, Niigata
- June 9 (Mon)Koidego Cultural Hall, Uonuma, Niigata
- June 11 (Wed)Ushiku-shi Chuo Shogai Gakushu Center Bunka Hall, Ushiku, Ibaraki
- June 13 (Fri)Sun City Hall, Koshigaya, Saitama
- June 14 (Sat)Chigasaki Shimin Bunka Kaikan, Chigasaki, Kanagawa
- June 15 (Sun)Togane Bunka Kaikan, Togane, Chiba
- June 21 (Sat)Asakusa Public Hall, Taito Ward, Tokyo
- June 22 (Sun)Asakusa Public Hall, Taito Ward, Tokyo
- June 23 (Mon)Asakusa Public Hall, Taito Ward, Tokyo
- June 24 (Tue)Asakusa Public Hall, Taito Ward, Tokyo
- June 25 (Wed)Asakusa Public Hall, Taito Ward, Tokyo
- June 27 (Sun)Rune Kodaira, Kodaira Citizens Cultural Hall, Kodaira, Tokyo
- June 28 (Sat)Komae Ecorma Hall, Komae, Tokyo
- June 29 (Sun) Kumagaya Bunka Sozo-kan Sakuramate, Kumagaya, Saitama
- July 18 (Fri)Settsu Shimin Bunka Hall, Settsu, Osaka (TBC)
- July 19 (Sat)Omihachiman Bunka Kaikan, Omihachiman, Shiga (TBC)