Taikoz: Seven Flowers - City Recital Hall

Taikoz: Seven Flowers - City Recital Hall

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Posted 2019-10-21 by Gypsy Rosefollow

Fri 18 Oct 2019

Taikoz presented a one-night-only performance of Seven Flowers at the City Recital Hall. It featured a unique combination of out-of-this-world taiko drumming, beautiful song, dynamic movement and stunning stage design, was awe-inspiring.

Based on the words of 15th-century Japanese playwright and theoretician, Zeami Motokiyo, in his work Fushikaden, Zeami, it describes the seven periods of an artist's life.

The concert showcased special guest artists of all ages. Each artist embraced all seven of Zeami's ages of the artist', as well as explored the many-faceted phases of an artist's life and work.

The performers covered all stages:

  • First Flower: Inborn Presence (Age 7)- performed by Eva Archer (9yrs old) Courtesy of Sydney Children's Choir

  • Second Flower: Flower of the Moment (From the age of 12 or 13)- performed by Zara Luong Courtesy of MLC Taiko Ensemble

  • Third Flower: Flower lost (from the age of 17 or 18) performed by Taiki Kendrick and Tataku Taiko Ensemble

  • Fourth Flower: Two Blessings (from the age of 24 or 25) performed by Claudia Wherry, Hirotaka Ran and Taikoz

  • Fifth Flower: Reflections (from the ages of 34 or 35) performed by Sophia Ang, Ryuji Hamada, Sophia Unsen, and Taikoz

  • Sixth Flower: The True Fower (from the ages of 44 or 45) performed by Kerryn Joyce and Taikoz

  • Seventh Flower: "The place where nothing is done" (Beyond the age of 50) performed by Ian Cleworth, Taikoz Artistic Director- Jess Ciampa, Tenor Soloist- Riley Le, and Shakuhachi Soloist.



  • The concert featured beautiful mesmerising delicate moments that morphed into an explosion of thunderous peaks. The artists performed profoundly evocative works side by side and were superb and moving to watch and experience.

    The production design was stunning, and it featured suspended skins from taiko drums and double helix- for the form that become a key to our understanding of DNA-made from recycled paper.

    The projections and special non-traditional lighting techniques referred to elements of fire, water, earth, and wind and incorporated artwork from Australian visual artist Emma Hack.

    The concert was tremendously exciting and captivating with the ever-evolving aural and visual panorama of Seven Flowers. The performance also stretched out imagination by the spellbinding journey through drumming with song.

    Overall, it was beautiful, timeless and at times, breathless.

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    !date 18/10/2019 -- 18/10/2019
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