Students easily recall the fairly fast impact of Taiko classes, Cindy Stephenson, who acknowledged that she frst came to ...

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“Back then, we knew what taiko was and had watched some performances online. But we were not very passionate about it since no one was teaching this Japanese drum form in Hong Kong,” recalled Leun ...

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We visit Sado, Niigata Prefecture, to meet a renowned taiko drum performance group that plays concerts worldwide. The 67 performers and staff members live together at a training facility ...

After a brief countdown, the room reverberates with sound and rhythm. Energizing shouts erupt and the vibrations of the drums ...

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Taiko is a style of ensemble drumming which began in the 1950s in post-war Japan. Since then, it has developed into an exponentially popular genre of performing arts, and literally thousands of groups ...

three-tonne parade floats housing a huge taiko drum. In a spectacular display of strength, the bearers raise the float up above their heads. They then keep their arms straight as they turn the ...

“My wife’s cousin was a hula dancer and after graduating she went to Stanford and came back the first break and she goes, ‘I play taiko drums’,” Anthony Jones explains. “I’m ...

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