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Recommended Reading for Platform 2016: A Body in Places

February 15, 2016

Eiko in Valparaiso, Chile, 2016. Photo by William Johnston.

Join us on Thursday evenings at 7pm during PLATFORM 2016 for Eiko’s Book Club, with readings by Allen Ginsberg, Kyoko Hayashi, Michiko Ishimure, Kenzaburo Oe, Ango Sakaguchi, C.D. Wright, and Eiko herself.

February 25: Post-War Tokyo
March 3: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
March 10: Minamata and Fukushima
March 17: America

 

Further Recommended Reading
Compiled by Jaime Shearn Coan

“Eiko Steps Away From One Dance Partner, to Take on Many More”
Gia Kourlas Feb 10, 2016 / New York Times

“Body Politics: The performance artist on going solo, inhabiting dangerous spaces, and the grotesqueness of time.”
Jill Tan
Dec 1, 2105, Guernica

Sickness and Health
Lauren O’Neill-Butler
July 3, 2015, Artforum

“From Voodoo to Butoh: Katherine Dunham, Hijikata Tatsumi, and Trajal Harrell’s Transcultural Refashioning of “Blackness.”
Michio Arimitsu
2015, MoMA

New York Times: Eiko Brings ‘A Body in a Station’ to the Fulton Center
Jack Anderson
June 19, 2015, New York Times

The Place of Place: Reflections on A Body in Fukushima
Jill Sigman
March 11, 2015

Retrospective Project: Eiko’s Reflections
October 18, 2012

Eiko & Koma: Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty
Joan Rothfuss, Editor
Walker Art Center, 2011

Eiko & Koma website

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