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THE RETROSPECTIVE PROJECT (2009-2012)
Prompted by the thought that the museum/gallery concept of a retrospective can be applied effectively to certain performing artists, Eiko & Koma constructed and presented a multi-faceted retrospective of their work.
The project included performative and non-performative aspects, each of which reinforced the other in illustrating the artistry and trajectory of Eiko & Koma’s career. By applying the tools and concepts traditionally used in creating a visual art retrospective, Eiko & Koma had both a broader and deeper framework with which to engage audiences in their work.
Visual and performing art curators worked in close collaboration with Eiko & Koma to examine their forty years of collaborative history. This examination is informing Eiko & Koma’s future work and has provided other established dance-makers with new perspectives on continued relevance and vitality.
Full Project Description (2009)
Retrospective Project: Eiko's Reflections (2012)
Eiko & Koma Retrospective Project at a Glance (2012)
Highlights
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• Exhibition at Wesleyan University's Zilkha Gallery in 2009, marking the beginning of the Retrospective Project
• Launch of a new website: www.eikoandkoma.org
• Restaging of old works such as White Dance, Breath, Elegy, Fission, and River,
• 18th and 19th season at the American Dance Festival featuring performances, an installation and film programs in 2010 and a revival of River in 2011
• Naked, a living installation commissioned by the Walker Art Center in 2010 and performed subsequently in New York and Chicago
• Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty, a four month retrospective exhibition co-curated by Peter Taub and Eiko & Koma at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in summer 2011
• Residue, a nearly four month exhibition and installations in the Astor gallery of the New York Public Library. for Performing Arts, curated and created by by Eiko & Koma,
• Water, a outdoor performance in a reflection pool of Lincoln Center.
• Creation of documentaries: Dancing Water, Offering, and The Making of Naked
• Retrospective catalogue, Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty, published by the Walker Art Center in May 2011
• Performances of Raven (2010) at all Retrospective sites
• Three New York seasons: Regeneration (2010), Naked ( 2011), Water (2011).
• Artists-in-residence at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) during the 2011-12 season: Three performing residencies, and a semester-long exhibition Residue in celebration of the Center’s tenth anniversary.
• Tour of over a dozen sites in the United States and abroad to Ireland
Dates and Venues
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- Retrospective Project Weseminar
- Wesleyan Univerisity Middletown, Connecticut
- May 22, 2010
Eiko and her collaborators, all Wesleyan alums, discussed the multi-faceted Retrospective Project, inaugurated at Zilkha Gallery in November 2009. The panelists included Sam Miller '75 (Retro...
- Danspace Project
- New York, New York
- May 27 - 29, 2010
The first New York City engagement of the Retrospective Project, Part I: Regeneration, was presented at Danspace Project in association with Asia Society. It will include unexpected juxtapositions ...
- American Dance Festival
- Durham, North Carolina
- June 28 - 30, 2010
Eiko & Koma performed three works at ADF, in Reynolds Industry Theater: Raven, Night Tide, and White Dance. There was a free screening of works by Eiko & Koma in the White Lecture Hall on W...
- NAKED: Living Installation
- Walker Art Center
- Nov 2 - 30, 2010
Eiko & Koma present Naked, a month-long "living" Installation, commissioned by the Walker Art Center.
Naked is inspired by Breath, Eiko & Koma's 1998 living installation at the Whitney Mu...
- Regeneration at Ringling Museum of Art
- Sarasota, Florida
- February 24-26, 2011
Eiko & Koma will perform Raven, Night Tide and White Dance at the Ringling Museum of Art, as a stop on the tour of the Retrospective Project. Robert Mirabal, a renowned Native-American musician...
- Regeneration at REDCAT
- Los Angeles, California
- March 2-6, 2011
Eiko & Koma will present their Regeneration program, with performances of Raven (2010), Night Tide (1984) and White Dance (1976). Performances are March 2-5, 8:30pm and March 6, 3:00pm.
A prev...
- Raven at the Lynden Sculpture Garden/Alverno Presents
- River Hills, Wisconsin
- July 23, 2011
Eiko & Koma will perform a site-specific version of Raven at the Lynden Sculpture Garden in River Hills, Wisconsin, presented by Alverno Presents. After a 6pm performance, audience will picnic ...
- Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty at MCA Chicago
- Chicago, Illinois
- Now open through November 13
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago is presenting a retrospective exhibition of Eiko & Koma, Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty, which will occupy three galleries on the museum's 4th floo...
- Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty at MCA Chicago
- Chicago, Illinois
- Now open through November 13
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago is presenting a retrospective exhibition of Eiko & Koma, Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty, which will occupy three galleries on the museum's 4th floo...
- Residency at Colorado College
- Colorado College
- Oct 2- 26
Serving as creative catalysts for Parvana, an exhibition exploring the multiple aesthetic, scientific, and literary understandings of butterflies and moths, Eiko & Koma will conduct a blo...
- Retrospective Project in San Francisco
- Yerba Buena center for the Arts
- March 15 through 23, 2012
March 15, 16, 17, Thursday and Friday 5-9pm Saturday 3-7pm: Fragile collaboration with Kronos Quartet
March 22, 23, 24 Thursday - Saturday 8 pm: Regeneration
YBCA celebrates Eiko & Koma's lon...
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Staff and Advisers
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Artistic Directors: Eiko & Koma
Retrospective Project Coordinator: Lydia Bell
lydia.m.bell (at) gmail.com
Exhibition Designer: Eric Bissell
ehbissell (at) gmail.com
Technical Director: David Ferri
daferri (at) mac.com
Manager: Ivan Sygoda
ivans (at) pentacle.org
Retrospective Producer: Sam Miller
Curatorial Advisers:
Philip Bither (Walker Art Center), Rachel Cooper (Asia Society), Irene and Paul Oppenheim, Harry Philbrick (Museum at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), Jodee Nimerichter and Charles Reinhart (American Dance Festival), Ralph Samuelson (Asian Cultural Council), Yoko Shioya (Japan Society), Jan Schmidt (NYPL), Peter Taub (Chicago MCA), Pam Tatge (Wesleyan University), Judy Hussie-Taylor (Danspace Project)
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A special thanks to the Mellon Foundation for generously providing funds to inaugurate the Retrospective Project, helping us to create this website.
Additional support for the Retrospective Project is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, the American Express Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan Foundation’s Performing Arts JAPAN program, the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program,and the National Dance Project (a project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation).
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