Visit Berkeley | Come for the Culture, Stay for the Food

World Stage. Celebrating the limitless possibilities of the traditional Japanese drum, the taiko, Kodo explores new directions for a vibrant living art form. The versatile performers dance, mime, and play a variety of instruments, but it is their awesome drums that mesmerize the audience, including the massive o-daiko, a 900-pound decorated instrument carved from the trunk of a single tree and played by two men. 'If there is such a thing as perfection in music, Kodo comes as near to it as any group in the world' (Boston Glove).