Performing Arts: Eiko & Koma: A Retrospective of Films

Event Details

 Eiko & Koma in "Offering" (Warsaw, 2002). Photo by Jaroslaw Brzezinski.Eiko & Koma in "Offering" (Warsaw, 2002). Photo by Jaroslaw Brzezinski.My Parents, 2004 (12 min), created by Shin Otake

The Retrospective Project, 2010 (10 min), directed by Joanna Arnow in collaboration with Eiko & Koma

Naked: A Gallery View, 2011 (12 min), camera by James Byrne, edited by James Byrne in collaboration with Eiko & Koma

Dancing in Water: The Making of River, 2009 (17 min) created by Eiko & Koma in collaboration with Shoko Letton

Offering, 2010 (15 min), created by Eiko & Koma in collaboration with Shoko Letton 

In this program, Eiko & Koma will share five short documentary films about their life and work. In My Parents (2004), their son Shin Otake narrates a film exploring his parents' artistic influences, created in 2004 for the occasion of Eiko & Koma receiving the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award. In Dancing in Water: the Making of River (2009), Eiko & Koma revisit their outdoor performance work, River, presented in 11 different bodies of water. Other films on the program include Offering (2010), The Retrospective Project (2010), and Naked: A Gallery View (2011). Following the program, Wendy Perron, Editor in Chief of Dance Magazine, will moderate a short discussion with Eiko & Koma.

 

 

 

 

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Residue, featuring works and artifacts collected during Eiko & Koma's 40 years of collaborative art-making, on display in the Library's Astor Gallery from July 20-October 30.