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TAO at Neues Theater Spirgarten

Dates: 3/1/2013 - 3/3/2013

📍 Theatre:
Neues Theater Spirgarten


Lindenplatz 5
Zurich, Canton of Zurich CH 8048

Phone: 0900 800 800

Tickets: CHF 50.00 - CHF 90.00


The Japanese ensemble inspires the masses. The fast and furious show in stunning precision comes back in the Switzerland!

Explosive and yet classic. Originally, and still modern. The Japanese drum ensemble TAO worldwide could inspire already millions for guest appearances. TAO revives the centuries-old traditional Wadaiko art with elements of the POPs and now returns to Zurich and Basel.

Her new show combines tradition and modernity in an impressive manner, and invites you to a journey through time and space. Starting classic pictures of Edo period drummers and drummers lead the Viewer from the beginnings of Wadaiko music to its contemporary form, which radiates a unique global beat.

The furious rhythms that increase to a drum storm whipping-up, presented with extraordinary precision, balance and endurance, have one - in the truest sense of the word - piercing effect. TAO is more than a stunning listening experience, TAO is overflowing vitality and enormous musicality. A unique performance, a mixture of musical meditation and wild martial art, topped by a meticulously coordinated choreography.

To bring the imposing drums with diameter up to 1.70 meter to the blades, especially one called the eleven Ensemble as well as a pronounced sense of rhythm: full physical usage. But TAO is not only martial drums and vibrations, which penetrate the body from the toes to the roots of the hair. TAO is also an adult an interplay between the deep rumbling of huge Wadaiko drums and delicate, fragile moments full of lyrical beauty, from the philosophy of the far East.

In Japan, the drum in the religious worship of the early days was as a link to the higher powers, as a mouthpiece, which should bring the gods and spirits and solicit their support and goodwill. Rediscovered by young musicians in recent decades as a musical instrument and modernized in his style of play, she brought TAO now the enthusiasm for a global audience, and that for years. 2004 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the first time by European spectators celebrated the musical troupe preparing again to push the pulse of their audience in the height.

Cast and Creative Team for TAO at Neues Theater Spirgarten

The Japanese ensemble

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Neues Theater Spirgarten

Lindenplatz 5
Zurich, Canton of Zurich CH 8048

Phone: 0900 800 800

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