38 Works by Eiko & Koma

38 minutes

This video is a chronological survey of Eiko & Koma's performance works. From each piece, only a brief section is selected to represent t...

Fragile (2012)

1 minute

[LINK 1812]Fragile[LINK], a collaborative event created and performed by [LINK kronosquartet.org]Kronos Quartet[LINK] and Eiko & Koma, ha...

Water (2011)

8 minutes

8 minute excerpt of Water, a work co-commissioned by Lincoln Center Out of Doors and the Skirball Center Los Angels. Camera by Joanna Arn...

David Harrington's Visit

6 minutes

In the summer of 2010, Eiko & Koma started communicating with Kronos Quartet about their new collaboration project. David Harrington visi...

Exposed Souls

5 minutes 30 sec

Simple, complex and “bare-bottom naked” — Eiko & Koma reveal a multitude of meanings in their work and in their lives. Clarice Smi...

My Parents (2004)

12 minutes

Documentary. Full length. Photo courtesy of the Walker Art Center Edited and narrated by Shin Otake, Eiko & Koma's second son. Created...

Naked: A Gallery View (2011)

6 minutes

Commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Eiko & Koma created the living installation Naked and performed it all hours the mu...

Wake (2011)

9 min. 10 sec.

This collaborative work is a cinematic dance created by Eiko & Koma and James Byrne. It was filmed in special sessions during the premie...

Talking Dance with Eiko & Koma ( at Walker Art Center)

Movement artists and Walker artists-in-residence Eiko & Koma join senior performing arts curator Philip Bither for a candid and casual di...

Raven - Wesleyan Univ (2009)

9 minutes

Performance excerpt. On December 15, 2009, Eiko & Koma performed Raven for the second time in Zilkha Gallery, where their exhibition T...

Eiko & Koma: The Retrospective Project (2009)

10 minutes

Documentary. Full length. This short video captures Eiko & Koma as they prepare and open their exhibition at Wesleyan University in 2...

Dancing in Water: The Making of River (2009)

17 minutes

Documentary. Full length. The first video documentary created by Eiko & Koma as a part of Eiko & Koma's Retrospective Project with the...

Eiko's Course on Atomic Bomb (2009)

8 minutes

Documentary. Full length. The Atomic Bomb: A Study in Movement and History A short documentary about the course dancer/choreographer ...

Interview with Philip Bither

2minutes 40sec

Philip Bother is a senior curator in performing arts in the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, which is commissioning a new living installa...

Naked and Delicious, a course at Colorado College (2011)

10 minutes

Eiko & Koma taught a three and a half week block course Naked and Delicious: the State of Being at Colorado College in October of 2011. T...

Breath (1999)

15 minutes

Broadcast quality color video. Conceived and performed by Eiko & Koma. Videographed June 8 and 15, 1998 at the Whitney Museum of American...

Walker Curators' Conversation on Naked

1 hour

Philip Bither, Doug Benidt, and Bartholomew Ryan (Walker curators) talk about their experience working with Eiko & Koma on the artists' l...

Creating Hunger at MANCC (2008)

5 minutes

Documentary. Full length. Eiko & Koma collaborated with Cambodian artists Charian and Peace in creating and performing their 2008 full...

Hunger (2008)

7 minutes

Excerpt from a performance at the Joyce Theater in New York. This is the section of Eiko & Koma's duet and Charian and Peace's painting o...

The Making of Cambodian Stories (2006)

23 minutes

Documentary. Full length. This video documents Eiko & Koma as they work with their young Cambodian collaborators in Phnom Penh in 200...

When Nights Were Dark (2000)

8 minutes

Performance excerpt. The set of [LINK 1827]When Nights Were Dark[LINK] was hand-crafted by Eiko and Koma during their residency on the...

Book Discussion at Jacob's Pillow

37 minutes

Maura Keefe, Suzanne Carbonneau, and Norton Owen discuss about Eiko & Koma's retrospective project and the catalog, [LINK 3291]Time Is No...

Radio Interview for the Dublicn Dance Festival

5 min

Regan Hutchins interviewed Eiko & Koma. Edited 5 minute program was broadcast on RTE Lyric FM’s The Culture File on May 16, 2011

Conversations on Naked: April 9, 2011, Part I

24 minutes

On Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 2pm, Forrest Gander and Miwako Tezuka conversed about the use of nudity, intimacy and space in Eiko & Koma'...

Conversations on Naked: April 9, 2011, Part II

On Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 2pm, Forrest Gander and Miwako Tezuka conversed about the use of nudity, intimacy and space in Eiko & Koma'...

Conversations on Naked: April 2, 2011, part I

On Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 2pm, Doryun Chong and Judy Hussie-Taylor conversed about the use of nudity, intimacy and space in Eiko & Ko...

Conversations on Naked: April 2, 2011, part II

On Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 2pm, Doryun Chong and Judy Hussie-Taylor conversed about the use of nudity, intimacy and space in Eiko & Ko...

Offering (2002)

14 minutes

Performance excerpt. Eiko & Koma conceived and created Offering as a mourning ritual in post 9/11 New York City and performed it in si...

REGENERATION I: RAVEN (2010)

18 minutes

Full length video of RAVEN as a part of REGENERATION (2010), a program designed for the Retrospective Project. Commissioned by Danspac...

Regeneration II: Night Tide (1984)

10 minutes

Full Length Video Night Tide (1984) was the first piece by Eiko & Koma with full nudity. It was revived as a part of Regeneration, the R...

Regeneration III: White Dance Revival (2010)

The revival of WHITE DANCE (1976), the first work Eiko & Koma showed in America, was commissioned with support from the National Endowmen...

Forrest Gander recites "Rust"

Rust by Forrest Gander Raven (sculpture) by Michael Rogers The wonderful poet, Forrest Gander, recites Rust, a poem he wrote for Ei...

Forrest Gander recites "Faithfulness"

Faithfulness：誠実 by [LINK http://www.forrestgander.com/Forrest_Gander/Welcome.html]Forrest Gander[LINK] Raven (sculpture) by Mic...

Forrest Gander recites "Entanglement"

After corresponding with Forrest Gander, Eiko & Koma asked Forrest to write a poetic response to their work. "Entanglement" was one of t...

Discussion with Robert Mirabal and Margaret Leng Tan

22 minutes

This is an edited archive of a post-performance discussion by Eiko & Koma with two of their music collaborators following the program tit...

Raven with Robert Mirabal ( 2010)

6 minutes

Eiko's solo and duet from the premiere performance of RAVEN on May 27, 2010 at Danspace Project, New York City. Camera by Joanna Arnow

Interview with Robert Mirabal

4 minutes

Robert Mirabal collaborated with Eiko & Koma on Land (1991). He composed the commissioned score and performed live for all performances i...

Interview with Beate Gordon

Mrs. Beate Gordon is the former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society and of Asia Society. She presented Eiko & Koma's New York d...

Producer Sam Miller speaks

3 minutes 30 second

Sam Miller, the producer of Eiko & Koma's Retrospective Project, speaks to the audience about the vision and contents of the project on ...

Interview with Charles Reinhart

2 minutes 36 sec

Charles Reinhart is the Director of American Dance Festival, which has commissioned and presented many works by Eiko & Koma. Charles was ...

Interview with Doryun Chong

2 minutes

Doryun Chong is the associate curator of painting and sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a friend of Eiko & Koma. Dory...

Mourning (2007)

9 minutes

Performance excerpt. Mourning is a collaboration between Eiko & Koma and pianist Margaret Leng Tan. The piece was commissioned by the ...

Charles Reinhart Interview (2007)

4 minutes

Charles L. Reinhart, the Director of American Dance Festival, talks about Grain He has been an extraordinary champion of Eiko & Koma’s...

Cambodian Stories Revisited (2007)

2 minutes

Performance excerpt. A year after their 12-city tour of Cambodian Stories with 11 young Cambodian artists, Eiko & Koma invited two of ...

Cambodian Story (2006)

49 minutes

Documentary. 49 Minutes. Color video. This film explores the collaboration between Eiko & Koma and students from the Reyum Institute of A...

Cambodian Stories (2006)

2 minutes

Performance excerpt. In creating and performing Cambodian Stories: Offering of Painting and Dance, Eiko & Koma collaborated with 11 yo...

Death Poem (2005)

46 minutes

Co-commissioned by the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and Danspace Project, [LINK 1824]Death Poem[LINK] is a meditation on dyin...

Tree Song (2004)

2 minutes

Performance excerpt. In [LINK 1853]Tree Song[LINK], Eiko & Koma continue their exploration of the body as a part of the landscape and ...

The Caravan Project (1999)

2 minutes

Performance excerpt. The Caravan Project was presented in busy urban plazas as well as in rural villages. This video is an excerpt of...

River (procenium version 1997)

3 minutes

Performance excerpt. After performing outdoor work River in nine water sites, Eiko & Koma collaborated with composer Somei Satoh and K...

RIver (outdoor 1995)

6 minutes

Performance excerpt. An excerpt from Eiko & Koma's 1995 outdoor work River. The performance shown above took place at Duke University ...

Wind (1993)

10 minutes

Performance excerpt. Wind (75 minutes) is a full evening performance work. A number of artists collaborated to produce music for this...

Land (1991)

3 minutes

Performance excerpt. This short excerpt was taken from a full length video shot and edited by Douglas Rosenberg for the occasion of Ei...

Rust (1989)

9 minutes

Performance footage. Full length. Rust was commissioned by the American Dance Festival where it premiered in 1989. The piece was perfo...

Undertow (1988)

7 minutes

Broadcast quality black and white video. Music by Ushio Torikai. Videographed August, 1988 at Jersey City (NJ) State College. Edited by E...

Tree (1988)

2 minutes

Performance excerpt. "Tree is wounded with its own memory." This idea was the theme of Eiko & Koma's 1988 work, Tree, a piece set t...

Husk (1987)

9 minutes

Media Dance. Full length. Performed by Eiko. Videographed by Koma on May, 1987 at the Kampo Cultural Center, New York, NY. Made po...

Lament (1985)

9 minutes

Broadcast quality black and white video. Sound mix by Eiko & Koma. Videographed July, 1985 at the Triplex Theatre, New York, NY. Edited ...

Bone Dream (1985)

7 minutes

Broadcast quality black and white video. Sound mix by Eiko & Koma. Videographed August, 1985 at the ARC Studio, New York in collaboration...

By The River (1986)

11minutes

Excerpt. Commissioned by Boston Dance Umbrella, this work was created in 1986 during a month-long residency in Boston. Clayton Campbell p...

Thirst (1985)

31 minutes

Performance footage. Full length. Thirst is Eiko & Koma's first longer piece to be performed entirely without music. The painted the b...

Wallow (1984)

19 minutes

Media Work. Full length. Adapted from their performance work Fur Seal (1977), this video is the first and only outdoor work Eiko & Ko...

Fur Seal (1983)

8 minutes

Performance excerpt. Fur Seal is the second full evening work Eiko & Koma presented after they arrived in the U.S. in 1976. The piece ...

Beam (1983)

12 minutes

Performance footage. Full length. Beam was the first of Eiko and Koma's pieces to be commissioned by the American Dance Festival, and ...

Grain* (1983)

14 minutes

Performance excerpt. Grain is Eiko & Koma's full-evening length work premiered in 1983. Uploaded here are Koma's solo and Eiko's solo ...

Tentacle (1983)

7 minutes

Sound score: Japanese folk music. Videographed August, 1983 at the ARC Studio, New York, NY. Made possible with funds from the National E...

Event Fission (1980)

4 minutes

Performance excerpt. This video is from Eiko & Koma's outdoor performance in "Art on the Beach" on the Hudson River landfill, produce...

Before the Cock Crows (1978)

4 minutes

Performance excerpt. This piece was performed to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean folk music. The accompaniment brings the influence o...

White Dance (1976)

6 minutes

Performance excerpt. In May 1976, Eiko & Koma performed White Dance, subtitled Moth, for their U.S. debut at the Japan Society and in ...