Kodo - Royal Festival Hall, London - 6th and 7th June 2009

With a performance never seen outside Japan, Kodo celebrates and explores the transient boundaries between traditional and contemporary, local and foreign, gods and humans, and men and women. With the dramatic power and range of the Japanese Taiko drum at its core, Ekkyo: Trans-Border delivers a potent, highly refined synthesis that has been the group's creative trademark for over twenty-five years. With Ekkyo: Trans-border, Kodo once again reaffirms its position as Japan's most acclaimed traditional performing arts company.

New choreography derived from the narrative of Japan's oldest book of history, and featuring premier Kodo dancer, Chieko Kojima, stretches the creative perimeters of Kodo's repertoire, while signature Kodo compositions, with their strong regional characters and rhythms one feels in the body, draw such forays back to ground.

Tickets are available directly from the Royal Festival Hall at: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/music/productions/kodo-46812