EIKO OTAKE IN RESIDENCE AT EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
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Culminating her spring semester residence as a guest artist in the dance department of Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, internationally renowned choreographer, director, performer, and teacher EIKO OTAKE will present a durational performance, scored in collaboration with her students, that explores the intersection of private bodies with public space, on April 14 and April 21. In addition, Eiko will lead an open movement workshop on April 28. For over 40 years, Eiko Otake has partnered with Takashi Koma Otake as Eiko & Koma. To date, Eiko & Koma have created 46 interdisciplinary performance works on their own bodies, three pieces for other dancers, seven “media dances” (dances specially created for the camera), and seven video documentaries. From 2009 to 2012 Eiko & Koma presented a multi-venue, multi-faceted Retrospective Project that included creating new performance works, installations, exhibitions, and media works; restaging old works; presenting media showings, panels and lectures; as well as publishing a comprehensive monograph of their works. Eiko & Koma have received a MacArthur Fellowship (1996), the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award (2004), the Dance Magazine Award (2006), and the first United States Artists Fellowship (2006). Eiko is a Founding Fellow of the Center for Creative Research and has taught at Wesleyan University. In addition to her students' performance and movement workshop, this semester Eiko is teaching two courses at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. In "Delicious Movement for Reflecting on Nakedness," students examine how being or becoming a mover reflects and alters each person's relationships with the environment, with history, and with other beings. Topics of study and discussion include Eiko & Koma’s aesthetic and inspirations, atomic bomb literature, and post-war Japan. The course "Private Body/Public Space" draws on Eiko's performance at Eugene Lang College, starting "in the safety of a studio and move towards exposing one’s body (and mind) in public places." Private Body/Public Place Movement Workshop: Exploring Private Body/Public Place |
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