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See Eiko & Koma timeline 1945 Japan defeated 1948 Koma born in Niigata, Japan 1952 Eiko born in Tokyo, Japan US occupation of Japan ends 1953 Korean War ends 1958-1964 Eiko spends childhood in rural Japan 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed despite a strong opposition movement in Japan
1964 Preparation for the Tokyo Olympics radically changes Tokyo’s landscape 1966 The Beatles perform in Tokyo 1967 Koma moves to Tokyo 1968 Koma enters Waseda University majoring in political science International students uprisings 1969 The Woodstock Festival 1968 - 71 Independently participate in anti-war student movement joining street demonstrations and barricading schools. Koma is arrested but not indicted. 1970 Eiko enters Chuo University majoring in political science 1971 Eiko and Koma meet while both are living at Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance studio in Tokyo Leave Hijikata’s studio to live and work together Leave college and begin to study with Kazuo Ohno 1972 Work in cabarets under the name of “Night Shockers” to earn their travel funds for leaving Japan Board a ship to Siberia then a train to Moscow and a plane to Europe arriving in Munich, Germany Self-produce a two-month late evening show at Theater ProT in Munich 1973 Move to Hanover to study with Manja Chimiel, the longtime assistant of Mary Wigman First gallery performance in Kunstverein in Hanover, Germany
Perform at the Cologne Choreographers’ Competition, for which Manja Chimel submitted their application. Judges led by Kurt Jooss choose Eiko & Koma’s 10-minute piece White Dance as one of three winners to be performed in the Cologne Opera House for the general public Create Linden Gracht Dance Laboratory, where they live and work with Japanese dancer Mitsutaka Ishii Perform at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam 1973 -74 Perform various versions of White Dance in festivals and venues in Netherlands, France and Germany 1974 Lucas Hoving sees Eiko & Koma perform and invites them to teach a master class in the Rotterdam Dance Academy, which he directs Move to Rotterdam to study in the Academy as special guests. Eiko has surgery in an attempt to relieve her prolonged ankle injury
A month long tour of Tunisia including a performance at Tabacca Festival. Both get sick. 1975 Study with Kazuo Ohno while working in preschools, Koma as a school bus driver and Eiko as a classroom teacher The Vietnam War ends Choreograph and rehearse White Dance in the preschool classroom after work hours 1976 Their first six-month visit to the US starts with a single San Francisco performance produced by Paul and Irene Oppenheim New York debut at Japan Society performing White Dance Visit to St. Croix where they collaborate with photographer Jan Henle
1977 After a brief return to Japan, move to New York 1978 Begin touring the East and West coast Work at Anna Halprin’s studio while living in San Francisco half time
1978 - 81 Live on West 15th St, Chelsea, Manhattan Become permanent U.S. residents and begin touring internationally Three Miles Island Nuclear Accident 1980 Work on Jimmy Carter presidential campaign 1981 Collaborate with performance artist Bob Carroll on Nurse’s Song 1981 - 84 Move to a farm house in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York Teach three-week, live-in workshop in the farmhouse called Delicious Movement Workshop
1983 Month long run of Grain in an East village loft First performance at the American Dance Festival
Film Wallow at Pt. Reyes, California
Premiere Night Tide, their first piece in the nude 1985 Son Yuta is born Create media dance Lament, the first collaboration with video artists James Byrne Premiere Thirst, their first piece in silence 1986 First appearance at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival with the New Moon Stories 1987 Koma films media dance Husk, Eiko’s solo 1988 Son Shin is born Present Tree and Thirst in Tokyo, their first performance in Japan since 1976
John Bernd and Bob Carroll, two close friends and gifted performers, die of AIDS as do many other friends and colleagues Three week performances and exhibition at Kirin Plaza in Osaka, Japan 1991 Premiere Land, collaboration with Native-American musician Robert Mirabal and painter Sandra Lerner 1993 Premiere Wind, collaboration with Chanticleer and Robert Mirabal 1991 Eiko & Koma’s son Yuta plays a part in Land and Wind. Their younger son Shin later inherits the roles 1995 Create River in the Catskill Mountains and premiere it in the Delaware River 1995 – 96 National tour of River co-produced by Environmental Performance Network 1996 Receive the first joint MacArthur Fellowship 1997 Premiere the indoor version of River, collaboration with Kronos Quartet and composer Somei Satoh 1998 Month-long living installation Breath at the Whitney Museum in New York 1999 Perform Caravan Project, a mobile performance installation, at Bryant Park and Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan 1999-2001 Tour Caravan Project to 16 communities
2000 Receive a one year space grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for a Premiere When Nights Were Dark, collaboration with Joseph Jennings and a Praise Choir 2001 9/11 Premiere Be With, a collaboration with Anna Halprin and Joan Jeanrenaud commissioned by the Kennedy Center. 2001 anthrax attacks happen the same week. 2002 Perform Offering, collaboration with David Kraukauer and Lakshmi Aysola, in parks throughout Manhattan and tour U.S. and Poland 2002-06 Offering is presented at 39 sites 2004 Receive Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award. For the ceremony, Eiko & Koma’s younger son Shin creates a video documentary My Parents Residency funded by Asian Cultural Council at Reyum Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2005 Eiko becomes a founding fellow of Center for Creative Research and begins a 2005- 06 Koma returns to Cambodia several times to work with students of Reyum Art School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2006 Creates video documentary The Making of Cambodian Stories 12-city U.S. tour of Cambodian Stories with 11 young Cambodian painters accompanied by an exhibition and the sale of paintings by students of Reyum Art School Receive Dance Magazine Award and the inaugural United States Artists Fellowship
2007 Eiko begins teaching a course at Wesleyan University, Delicious Movement for Premiere Mourning, collaboration with pianist Margaret Leng Tan commissioned for the centennial of Japan Society Revival of Grain and creation of Quartet, collaboration with Charian and Peace (of Cambodian Stories) commissioned by American Dance Festival Eiko writes a Master’s thesis at the New York University Gallatin School about atomic bomb literature titled Sustained Mourning 2008 Premiered Hunger, collaboration with Charian and Peace (of Cambodian Stories) co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center and Joyce Theater 2009 The start of Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project. A conference titled Envisioning is held at Wesleyan University. 36 curators and scholars gather to discuss the retrospective project and its goals. Exhibition and performances in Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts 2010 Publication of From Trinity to Trinity, written by Kyoko Hayashi and translated and introduced by Eiko Regeneration, a Retrospective Project program, premieres in New York City at Danspace Project. The Walker Art Center commissions a living installation, Naked, as a part of an exhibition of its permanent collection. Eiko & Koma perform Naked for a month during all the hours the museum is open. 2010-12 National and international tour of Regeneration 2011 Devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, resulting in nuclear meltdowns and the release if radioactive materials at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Present Naked at Baryshnikov Art Center with an accompanying video installation Publication of catalogue Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty by the Walker Art Center Opening of exhibition Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Revival of River during Eiko & Koma’s 18th season at the American Dance Festival Opening of exhibition Residue at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts Premiere of Water at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2011-2012 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland celebrates its 10th year anniversary with a year-long presentation of an Eiko & Koma exhibition and three performances 2014 Eiko and Koma each begin solo projects
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