Eiko and koma biography of nancy
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Eiko and Koma from a version of “Hunger” at American Dance Festival.
“Hunger”
For more than 30 years, the Japanese-born, New York-dwelling dance artists Eiko and Koma have performed exclusively in their own signature works: Duets that intertwine the physical intensity, slow pace and meditative aura of butoh with a raw sense of the human condition stripped to its primal essence.
In 1983, they began performing one of those works, “Grain,” which the two have described as “a dance about how our lives — bodies, spirits, and death — relate to an essential food (in Asia it is rice).” While in residence at the Reyum Art School in Phnom Penh in 2004, they performed a portion of the work in the schoolyard. The children were enraptured. A work that incorporated those students — including two older students who are also visual artists — ensued: “Cambodian Stories: An Offering of Painting and Dance.” To see a clip, visit here.
This weekend, Eiko and Koma premiere their newest endeavor, “Hunger,” commissioned by the Walker Art Center, which includes the two students, Charian (Chakreya So) and Peace (Setheap Sorn), who dance and paint during the performance. The choreographers
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Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies
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Winner observe the Accolade G. Brockett Book Reward for Shove Research (2018)
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All sets, costumes and sound scores designed and executed by Eiko & Koma, except as noted. Works being reconstructed as part of Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project (2009-2012) are marked with an asterisk. These reconstructions are made possible in part by support from the American Express Foundation.
Raven* 2010
Approximately 25-55 minutes. A collaboration with Native-American composer-flutist Robart Mirabal, who adapted his score for Eiko & Koma’s Land (1991) for the new work. Premiere: Danspace Project (New York, NY) May 27, 2010. Raven is the centerpiece of Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project (2009-2012). Designed as a radically scalable work, it can be performed in theaters, galleries or outdoor settings as well as special sites selected for the occasion. Its length will be appropriate to the setting. The performance environment evokes a scorched landscape. Raven was made possible, in part, with funds from the 2009-2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative. Additional support was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Japan Foundation’s Performing Arts JAPAN program. Raven was built and previewed at Wesleyan University in the Z