Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma in Performance and Conversation with author Rosemary Candelario - 92Y, New York
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Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma in Performance and Conversation with author Rosemary Candelario

After more than 40 years as an acclaimed duo whose innovative and influential modern and postmodern dance was central to the American avant-garde dance scene, Eiko Otake and Takashi (Koma) Otake are now exploring solo work.

Following solo performances by both Eiko and Koma, author Rosemary Candelario — whose book Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies is the first in-depth study of Eiko & Koma’s work — talks with them about their history, the recurring themes of their work and what it's like to perform as soloists for the first time.

$10 in advance / $20 at the door

Program subject to change.

Eiko Otake

Born and raised in Japan, Eiko Otake is a New York-basedmovement artist, performer and choreographer who for more than 40 years worked as Eiko & Koma.

Eiko Otake

Born and raised in Japan, Eiko Otake is a New York-basedmovement artist, performer and choreographer who for more than 40 years worked as Eiko & Koma. Since 2014, she has directed and performed a solo project, A Body in Places, in which she collaborates with photographer and historian William Johnston to create and present a series of exhibitions showing her dancing in irradiated Fukushima and elsewhere. She teaches an interdisciplinary course about the Atomic Bombings and Nuclear disasters at Wesleyan University and Colorado College.

Takashi Otake

Raised in Japan, and based in New York since 1976, Takashi Otake has collaborated with Eiko for 40 years.

Takashi Otake

Raised in Japan, and based in New York since 1976, Takashi Otake has collaborated with Eiko for 40 years. Known as Eiko & Koma, they hand craft every aspect of their works. They created three “living” gallery installations: Breath (1998) for the Whitney Museum, Naked (2010) for the Walker Art Center, and The Caravan Project (2013) for MoMA. Their multi-faceted Retrospective Project (2009-2012) consisted of new and restaged works, exhibitions, media works and a monograph of their works, Eiko & Koma: Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty published by the Walker Art Center. In 2012, they began the Archive Project to curate their own legacy. Among other honors, they were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships (1984), two Bessie Awards (1984, 1990), a MacArthur Fellowship (1996) and an inaugural USA Fellowship (2006), Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award (2004) and the Dance Magazine Award (2006) for lifetime achievement in modern dance. Most recently, Koma was honored to be among the first round of artists selected for the Doris Duke Performing Arts Awards (2012). Since 2014, Koma has been working on his first multi-disciplinary interactive solo project: The Ghost Festival, which he dances with his paintings.

Rosemary Candelario

Rosemary Candelario writes about dance and popular culture through the lens of gender, race and ethnicity.

Rosemary Candelario

Rosemary Candelario writes about dance and popular culture through the lens of gender, race and ethnicity. Whether she is addressing the Japanese avant-garde dance, butoh, Asian American dance, vampires, cyborgs or mass protests, an attention to the political efficacy of moving bodies pervades her work. Rosemary’s book, Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma’s Asian American Choreographies was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2016. She has also published in the Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, The Scholar & Feminist Online, The International Journal of Screendance, Asian Theatre Journal and The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, among others. Her choreography has been produced across the United States, and as a dancer she has performed across the United States and in Brazil, Canada, Germany and South Africa. Rosemary earned a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA and is Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University.

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