Finding Her Beat | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In the midst of a frozen Minnesota winter, a Japanese drum master and Korean adoptee from North Dakota join forces to as | dG1fUUhDNTFHT2dRWnM

Transcript

00:00 I've always wanted to produce an all-star concert.

00:05 Bring the best female taiko artists from Japan and from North America together and put women

00:13 center stage.

00:14 Okay, we're really doing this.

00:17 Yeah.

00:18 There are amazing female taiko players, but they're kind of scattered and kind of work

00:23 in isolation.

00:24 So happy you're here.

00:25 I'm from Sacramento, California.

00:26 I'm from Hawaii.

00:31 Tokyo.

00:32 My name is Megan Chasmith and I am a guest artist tonight.

00:36 And my wife.

00:37 In college, I discovered taiko.

00:38 It's the thing that kept me alive.

00:42 It was the first time that I feel fully showing who I am.

00:46 It's like a 20 years ago dream.

00:49 You're one of the best performers.

00:51 Well thank you, Mother.

00:52 The goal is for you to be yourself and I will try to weave us together for the concert.

01:01 Trust me, I'm not going to regret any of this.

01:08 This kind of gathering has not happened before.

01:11 First time is very risky.

01:15 There's a lot of competition and jockeying, but we're not supposed to be like that because

01:20 we're women and we support each other.

01:22 It was like a pressure cooker, so all your triggers get triggered.

01:26 Rehearsal, rehearsal, concert.

01:28 What am I doing?

01:30 The time is approaching and how are we going to hold this together?

01:34 Why is it that we think that we don't belong?

01:44 We deserve to do this work.

01:47 Please gather your power, your energy, your love to our sound.

01:52 Then it will be our beat.

01:55 Okay, let's do it.

01:57 [applause]

02:05 [applause]

02:06 [music]

02:06 (audience cheering)

02:09 [BLANK_AUDIO]