An Evening with The Poetry Project

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

5:30pm – Doors open for Installation by Eiko
Eiko will install images, objects, and videos of past performances on Tuesday evenings throughout the Platform. The installation will accumulate, and evolve weekly. Lighting created in collaboration with Kathy Kaufmann.

7pm – An Evening with The Poetry Project
Readers include: Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Robert Kocik, Tonya Foster, and Stacy Szymaszek.

Co-presented by Danspace Project and The Poetry Project, this evening is inspired by Eiko’s citing of Allen Ginsberg as a major influence on her work and this Platform.

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #2

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #3

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

Film Series at Anthology Film Archives PROGRAM 3: BODIES ON AN ISLAND

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

This Wednesday night film series is co-presented by Danspace Project and Anthology Film Archives and curated by Eiko, who addresses “how humans contribute to and survive the characteristics of places.” Tickets are available at Anthology’s box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales.

PROGRAM 3: BODIES ON AN ISLAND
Nakedness is my life-long theme: artistically, physically, and metaphorically. THE NAKED ISLAND depicts the life of a family on a small island that barely provides them with the means for subsistence. Like THE NAKED ISLAND, Eiko & Koma’s “living installations” are place-based works. In a gallery, we create another place where we exist and move as inhabitants. –Eiko

Kaneto Shindo
THE NAKED ISLAND
1960, 96 min, 35mm, b&w. In Japanese with English subtitles.

The poetic, dialogue-free THE NAKED ISLAND is one of my favorite films. Shindo created the first Japanese independent film production company in 1950 and never returned to mainstream productions throughout his career, which lasted until his death in 2012 at the age of 100. THE NAKED ISLAND is a model of low budget filmmaking. The minimal cast and crew all camped out at the location, sharing all the necessary labor. This method, which Shindo adhered to for most of his career, deeply influenced generations of Japanese independent filmmakers. EIko & Koma ahs also taken the same path. Shot on Sukun-jima in the gentle Seto Inland Sea, NAKED ISLAND seems at first like a fable but its description of the surrounding society is in fact a realistic one. –Eiko

With:
Eiko & Koma HUSK 1987, 9 min, 16mm
HUSK is my solo; Koma was on camera. We wanted to create a dance poem of an unnamed body in an unnamed place. The choreography of both body and camera was created to make an unedited media work. –Eiko

More info:
anthologyfilmarchives.org
eikoandkoma.org

Delicious Movement Workshop

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko has taught “Delicious Movement” at festivals, universities and arts centers for more than three decades and has influenced generations of dancers and choreographers all over the country.

Every Wednesday (February 17, 24 March 2, 9, 16) during the Platform, from 11:30am-1:30pm, Eiko will teach her signature workshop which is open to all people (not just dancers!), all ages and all abilities. All are encouraged to experience Eiko’s simple but richly nuanced movement vocabulary.

Individuals may sign up for one or multiple workshops.

Observers welcome!

DELICIOUS MOVEMENT MANIFESTO

1. Move to rest, sleep, and dream.

2. Move to pass time, bloom, and linger.

3. Move to taste and share.

4. Move to forget and remember.

[read the full manifesto on eikoandkoma.org]

Book Club: HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s Book Club will meet each Thursday evening at Danspace Project in the St. Mark’s Church sanctuary.

RSVP for each week’s book club. Your RSVP will be followed up with readings for the week.

Readings this week include:

Kyoko Hayashi (b. 1930) “The place of the Festival” by Kyoko Hayashi (1975. 37 p. PDF)
Kenzaburo Oe (b. 1935) “Hiroshima Notes” (1965. 38P PDF)

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #4

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #5

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

Precarious #2

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko with Michelle Boulé, Beth Gill, Neil Greenberg, Koma, Jimena Paz, Arturo Vidich, and Geo Wyeth.

Invited artists were given a quote by philosopher Judith Butler about grief and mourning as a point of departure. Each artist has selected a place inside St. Mark’s Church and all will perform a solo simultaneously over three hours.

Audiences will be free to move throughout the church with performances occurring both in the sanctuary as well as other locations throughout the building.

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #6

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #7

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

An Evening with DonChristian

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Platform curators Judy Hussie-Taylor, Lydia Bell, and Eiko have invited artists from other disciplines to respond to three of Eiko’s artistic concerns: 1) the relationship of a body to a place; 2) artist as wanderer; 3) how we bear witness to change. The guests’ artistic responses are presented alongside Eiko’s Church Installation.

5:30pm – Doors open for Installation by Eiko
Eiko will install images, objects, and videos of past performances on Tuesday evenings throughout the Platform. The installation will accumulate, and evolve weekly. Lighting created in collaboration with Kathy Kaufmann.

7pm – One-Night-Only Performance by DonChristian
“Don Christian makes music with a sense of tactful drama, timeless…it defies absurdity.” – Noisey
“…glides in on a beat from Suicideyear and fuses neo-soul and smoky, post-A$AP rapping seamlessly.” – Vogue.com

Lydia Bell and guest curator Shin Otake have invited rapper, R&B singer, and multimedia artist DonChristian to create a new composition inspired by Eiko and drawing from “the culture of violence in America” and “notions of hypermasculinity with regard to the black male body.”

Jones’ performance will be followed by a conversation with Lydia Bell, Shin Otake, and Eiko about the role of performance in addressing violence, anger, and identity.

Delicious Movement Workshop

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko has taught “Delicious Movement” at festivals, universities and arts centers for more than three decades and has influenced generations of dancers and choreographers all over the country.

Every Wednesday (February 17, 24 March 2, 9, 16) during the Platform, from 11:30am-1:30pm, Eiko will teach her signature workshop which is open to all people (not just dancers!), all ages and all abilities. All are encouraged to experience Eiko’s simple but richly nuanced movement vocabulary.

Individuals may sign up for one or multiple workshops.

Observers welcome!

DELICIOUS MOVEMENT MANIFESTO

1. Move to rest, sleep, and dream.

2. Move to pass time, bloom, and linger.

3. Move to taste and share.

4. Move to forget and remember.

[read the full manifesto on eikoandkoma.org]

Film Series at Anthology Film Archives: PROGRAM 4: BODIES IN MINAMATA

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

This Wednesday night film series is co-presented by Danspace Project and Anthology Film Archives and curated by Eiko, who addresses “how humans contribute to and survive the characteristics of places.” Tickets are available at Anthology’s box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales.

PROGRAM 4: BODIES IN MINAMATA

Noriaki Tsuchimoto
MINAMATA: THE VICTIMS AND THEIR WORLD
1971, 120 min, 16mm. In Japanese with English subtitles. This screening is co-organized by The Japan Foundation.
I grew up in postwar, post-occupation Japan, an era of rapid economic growth accompanied by pollution and environmental hazards. It was clear that corporations did not care for much besides profit. Minamata is a city in southern Japan that gave its name to a fatal disease caused by the most notorious environmental hazard in Japan’s history. Fishermen, their families, and their pets were the first victims to suffer from methylmercury poisoning by eating fish harvested from the sea that, for 36 years, was contaminated by a fertilizer factory. The victims’ anger and their efforts to create normalcy within their abnormal situation deliver a deep sense of urgency. That urgency also manifested in other resistance movements, which affected the ways in which some of my own generation thought of the world and learned ways to live and fight. –Eiko

With:
Eiko & Koma and James Byrne LAMENT 1985, 9 min, 16mm
We collaborated with James Byrne to create LAMENT in the mid-1980s when I saw many colleagues and friends become sick and die of AIDS. To live is to witness the suffering of others, and to see the wrongs of the society that creates this suffering. To acknowledge this suffering and to maintain mourning for it is to willfully refuse to forget. –Eiko

More info:
anthologyfilmarchives.org
eikoandkoma.org

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #8

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

Book Club: MINAMATA and FUKUSHIMA

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s Book Club will meet each Thursday evening at Danspace Project in the St. Mark’s Church sanctuary.

RSVP for each week’s book club. Your RSVP will be followed up with readings for the week.

Readings for this week include:

Michiko Ishimure (b. 1927). Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease (1969. p3-63.PDF)
Kenzaburo Oe (b. 1935) “History repeats,” The New Yorker, March 28, 2011 New Yorker (2011)
Poems from Fukushima. PDF

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #9

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #10

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

This Solo will take place at St. Mark’s Church, coinciding with After Fukushima: a 24-Hour Event.

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

After Fukushima: A 24-hour Event

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

March 11 marks the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima. A photo collaboration between Eiko and photographer/historian William Johnston will be on display here in the St. Mark’s Church sanctuary for 24 hours. Following Eiko’s solo at 9pm, 24 artists will contribute one song, poem, prayer, chant, movement, or gesture every hour, on the hour.

After Fukushima: A 24-hour Event is presented in partnership with Japan Society and Kundiman.

SCHEDULE

4PM–8PM – Conversation Without Walls: Bearing Witness
Scholars and artists gather to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. How are we challenged by mounting human failures? How does being a mover affect our thoughts and sensitivity? And how do our memories affect our movement? How do choreographers concern themselves with changing environments, artistically, politically and socially? RSVP here

4-5pm:
Presenters: Marilyn Ivy & William Johnston 
Respondents: Gabriel Florenz, Harry Philbrick, Julie Malnig

5-6pm:
Presenters: Karen Shimakawa & Ana Janevski 
Respondents: Debra Levine, luciana achugar

6-7pm:
Presenters: Yoshiko Chuma & Katja Kolcio
Respondents: Koosil-ja, Wendy Perron

9PM –  A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #10 at St. Mark’s Church, with a special introduction by Yukie Kamiya, Gallery Director of Japan Society. Tickets here
We will try our best to squeeze in as many people as possible for this solo. Come by at 8:15pm to join the wait list!

10PM – Installation opens
24 artists will contribute one song, poem, prayer, chant, movement, or gesture every hour, on the hour. FREE with $10 suggested donation!

10pm: Jeannine Otis, St. Mark’s Church Choir Director

11pm: AJ Shavers accompanied by Daiquan Munoz

12 midnight: Ralph Samuelson (on shakuhachi)

1am: Rev. Dr. Allison Moore of St. Mark’s Church

2am: Lydia Bell

3am: Ishmael Houston-Jones

4am: Ramsi Tora

5am: DonChristian

6am: ignabu

7am: Rev. Earl Ikeda of New York Buddhist Church with Assistant Ministers Isabelle Shinjo Bernard, Cheryl Joko Ikemiya, Gary Shobo Jaskula, Matthew Kaigo Wise

8am: To be announced

9am: To be announced

10am: To be announced

11am: Steven Taylor (playing Allen Ginsberg’s harmonium)

12 noon: April Naoko Heck of Kundiman Writers & Poets

1pm: Purvi Shah of Kundiman Writers & Poets

2pm: Madhu Kaza of Kundiman Writers & Poets

3pm: Meredith Monk

4pm: Carol Lipnik

5pm: John Kelly

6pm: Muna Tseng

7pm: Ishmael Houston-Jones

8pm: Margaret Leng Tan (on piano)

9pm: Dana Reitz

SAT., MARCH 12, 10PM – Installation closes

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #11

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #12

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

An Evening with Margaret Leng Tan, Valda Setterfield, and Forrest Gander

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Platform curators Judy Hussie-Taylor, Lydia Bell, and Eiko have invited artists from other disciplines to respond to three of Eiko’s artistic concerns: 1) the relationship of a body to a place; 2) artist as wanderer; 3) how we bear witness to change. The guests’ artistic responses are presented alongside Eiko’s Church Installation.

5:30pm – Doors open for Installation by Eiko
Eiko will install images, objects, and videos of past performances on Tuesday evenings throughout the Platform. The installation will accumulate, and evolve weekly. Lighting created in collaboration with Kathy Kaufmann.

7pm – Performances by Margaret Leng Tan, Forrest Gander, and Valda Setterfield in response to Eiko’s installation

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #13

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

Film Series at Anthology Film Archives: PROGRAM 5: BODIES IN A CROWD

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

This Wednesday night film series is co-presented by Danspace Project and Anthology Film Archives and curated by Eiko, who addresses “how humans contribute to and survive the characteristics of places.” Tickets are available at Anthology’s box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales.

PROGRAM 5: BODIES IN A CROWD

I met Mura Dehn by accident soon after Koma and I arrived in New York. Surprised by how little sense of rhythm I have as a dancer, Mura offered to teach me her “compromised version of jazz dance for Eiko.” It is a quintessentially New York story of how two young Japanese artists in their 20s ended up inheriting from an old Russian Jewish friend the wealth of African American people dancing their hearts out in the Savoy Ballroom of pre-war Harlem. In the sea of African Americans, Mura was often the only white person dancing. She said the entire Savoy was bustling with dancing energy. One dancer in her film says, “Spirit moves me. When spirit leaves me I stop dancing.” –Eiko

Mura Dehn
THE SPIRIT MOVES: A HISTORY OF BLACK SOCIAL DANCE ON FILM
1987, 119 min, 16mm
Dehn, born and first trained in dance in Russia, moved to Europe to study at the Isadora Duncan School. Later she studied jazz and immigrated to the US in 1930. She found the most exciting jazz dancing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. First as a dancer, then as a filmmaker, she immersed herself among the most brilliant African American dancers. Her magisterial, three-part documentary features her own narration. –Eiko

With:
Eiko Otake A BODY IN A STATION 2015, 15 min, digital
An excerpt from Eiko’s performance at Fulton Center in Lower Manhattan in June 2015. Camera by Alexis Moh; edited by Alexis Moh with Eiko.

More info:
anthologyfilmarchives.org
eikoandkoma.org

Delicious Movement Workshop

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko has taught “Delicious Movement” at festivals, universities and arts centers for more than three decades and has influenced generations of dancers and choreographers all over the country.

Every Wednesday (February 17, 24 March 2, 9, 16) during the Platform, from 11:30am-1:30pm, Eiko will teach her signature workshop which is open to all people (not just dancers!), all ages and all abilities. All are encouraged to experience Eiko’s simple but richly nuanced movement vocabulary.

Individuals may sign up for one or multiple workshops.

Observers welcome!

DELICIOUS MOVEMENT MANIFESTO

1. Move to rest, sleep, and dream.

2. Move to pass time, bloom, and linger.

3. Move to taste and share.

4. Move to forget and remember.

[read the full manifesto on eikoandkoma.org]

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #14

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

Book Club: AMERICA

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s Book Club will meet each Thursday evening at Danspace Project in the St. Mark’s Church sanctuary.

RSVP for each week’s book club. Your RSVP will be followed up with readings for the week.

Readings for this week include:

Eiko Otake “Kyoko Hayashi Writes in Sustained Mourning”
Kyoko Hayashi “From Trinity to Trinity” (1999) translated by Eiko
C.D. Wright poems
Allen Ginsberg poems

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #15

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

This solo will take place at St. Mark’s Church.

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

One final midnight performance will take place on March 19.

Talking Duets

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

With: Eiko, David Brick, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yvonne Meier, Elizabeth Streb, Moderator: Laura Flanders

First developed during LMCC’s River to River Festival last summer by Eiko and French choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh, Talking Duets was a playful structured improvisational score created and performed by Huynh and Eiko with Hussie-Taylor as the time-keeper and moderator.

These iterations will include experimental duets by a diverse range of artists. Eiko and invited guests perform experimental duets, moving and speaking.

Read more about the origins of Talking Duets

A Body in Places: Eiko Solo #16

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko’s interest is in the East Village’s history as a home for multiple generations of immigrants, activists, artists, outcasts, dancers, musicians, and poets. This history and her own connection to the neighborhood has inspired her to perform one solo every day (Monday – Friday) for small audiences over three weeks at various locations in the East Village.

This final solo performance will take place at midnight, Saturday (12:00 AM on Sunday, March 20).

Audience members will gather at St. Mark’s Church and will be accompanied to a nearby place where Eiko will perform.

Performances will take place at various times during the morning, afternoon and night. Audiences for these intimate performances will range from 10 to 25 people depending on the size of the performance site.

The specific indoor places will not be revealed in advance but will include familiar and unfamiliar places along Second Avenue and near St. Mark’s Church.

Please note: some places have stairs and limited access to restrooms. For more information regarding accessibility please call 212-674-8112.

Film Series at Anthology Film Archives: PROGRAM 6: A BODY IN A CHAIR: BODIES AWAKE

Part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places

Eiko and John Killacky will be in attendance to introduce this screening!

This Wednesday night film series is co-presented by Danspace Project and Anthology Film Archives and curated by Eiko, who addresses “how humans contribute to and survive the characteristics of places.” Tickets are available at Anthology’s box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales.

PROGRAM 6: A BODY IN A CHAIR: BODIES AWAKE
I have long felt that dance does not belong only to the young, healthy, and athletic. Here are some clear examples of old and challenged bodies dancing in mourning of the lost. –Eiko

Otsu Koshiro
INNER MONOLOGUE
2005, 100 min, digital. In Japanese with English subtitles.
I studied with Butoh’s founder Kazuo Ohno in 1971-72 and again in 1975-76. He was always disappointed by my leaving for faraway places like Europe and the US. Having spent nine years in the War, Ohno, upon his return, danced with urgency, perhaps also with remorse. In 1977, at the age of 70, he danced La Argentina, his homage to famed Spanish dancer La Argentina, whom he saw in 1929. He performed six seasons in New York, the last in December 1999 at the age of 93, his very final concert abroad. He soon suffered a fall that advanced his Alzheimer’s. However, with the help of his son Yoshito Ohno, he continued to dance on a chair, both in his studio and in the theaters of various cities. Though his memories and steps were lost, his dancing clearly lived on in his body and mind. Ohno danced and murmured, “If I cannot dance, why have I climbed this mountain?” –Eiko

With:
John Killacky and Steve Grandell STOLEN SHADOWS 1996, 10 min, video
John Killacky DREAMING AWAKE 2003, 5 min, video
STOLEN SHADOWS is a black and white film lamenting on the mounting losses from the AIDS pandemic. DREAMING AWAKE juxtaposes a narrator in a wheelchair with the movement of nude dancers. A surgical mishap left Killacky paralyzed. He willed himself to re-learn and train his new body. –Eiko

More info:
anthologyfilmarchives.org
eikoandkoma.org

Enrico D. Wey: to warring states, a useless tool

Thursday’s performance will be followed by a conversation between Enrico D. Wey and Jaime Shearn Coan.

In his third Danspace commission, Enrico D. Wey presents a deeply personal examination of Asian male identity and embodiment. Wey explores clichés such as the Asian body as a fetishized and invisible minority, asking, “Can I reclaim my own physical body from the gaze of others and from my own embedded prejudice?” This new work is a companion piece to 1, this useless tool [this folded flower] which premiered at Abrons Arts Center March 2015.

Choreographed and performed by Enrico D. Wey
Lighting designed by Elliott Jenetopulos
Costume designed by Oksana Meister