Shidara Pre-Performance Talk

Pre-concert interpretive lecture by:

-Dr. Shawn Bender, Asst. Professor of Anthropology, Dickenson College, PA
-Dr. Richard Miller, Associate Director of UW Madison Center for East Asian Studies

This talk will place Taiko in musical, historical and cultural perspective and engage the audience in a discussion on the boundaries of tradition and modernity, preservation and innovation, individual and community and East and West.