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Date:
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Friday 27th
August 2010 |
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Time:
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7.30pm |
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Tickets: |
£15.00
(Concessions: £10.00) |
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Venue: |
Auditorium |
http://www.tokara.net
Art Lee,
artist and performer of the Japanese art form known as taiko (wadaiko),
is the first and still the only non-Japanese ever
to obtain an
artist visa from the Japanese government to lead the life of a
professional taiko artist in Japan.
He is also the
first non-Japanese to win First Place in the Solo Odaiko section of
the most prestigious and renowned taiko contest in the world -
The Tokyo
International Wadaiko Contest.
Art Lee is widely recognized throughout the world as one of the
leading taiko artists of our generation.
Highlighted performances, both as a solo performer and with his
group, TOKARA, include the Taiko All-Star Concert in Tokyo, Japan
Expo, Carnegie Hall,
Two week concert set On Broadway in New York, 2008 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, Taipei City 120th Anniversary, and Japan-Australia Year of
Exchange Concert Series.
This new production "TENCHI SHINMEI (the gods of heaven and earth)"
debuted in Japan on February
28th and is set to tour the world for five years, mainly in Japan.
The
inspiration for this concert comes from Art's teacher in Japan,
Grandmaster Daihachi Oguchi, who passed away in 2008.
Calling upon
the purest of Shinto beliefs that within all things in the
universe, both animate and inanimate, reside the gods of heaven and
earth.
"They communicated such joy...that I was absolutely enchanted...I
felt pure primal joy as the beat reverberated through my body... -
NipponDaze
"Catch them while you can. If you don't, you'll probably either
live to regret it or probably never know what you missed" -
Edinburgh Fringe Review
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