Eiko is the first professor I’ve ever had who taught while lying on the ground. . . .
[Seeing this] made me reevaluate the simple assumptions about body posture and positioning that dictate so many parts of the day.
. . . As we let our bodies drift on the ground, I felt unfettered from time, unmoored from the persistent march of the hours. … my life is a fraction of a millisecond in the context of all of time. I savored the moments of intentional “uselessness”.
--Excerpt from student journal, Wesleyan University, Spring 2013
Eiko talks about her teaching
Dancing through History
Contact Quarterly Volume 41, 2016
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