The Duet Project

• My Duet Partners (2019)

  Eiko edited this excerpts from many duets she created and performed with artists of varied backgrounds. The video includes includes perf...

• Elegies: with John Killacky (2019)

  9 min 36 sec

  John is Eiko's long time friend. It was in July 2018 when both of them were attending the tree planting ceremony of their mutual friend S...

• With DonChristian Jones (2019)

  Lightly edited excerpt from archival footage of the third scene of The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable Premiered July 8-10 2019 at A...

• With Ann Carlson

  During Eiko's creative residency at UCLA, EIko invited Ann Carlson to experiment with her in studio. Both Eiko and Ann clearly remember t...

• Beverly's Portraits (2019)

  4 min 22nd

  This is a video Eiko created from Beverly's paintings she saw at her exhibitions. Eiko used this video in the performance of The Duet Pro...

• With Beverly McIver (2019)

  Lightly edited archival footage of the first scene of The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable Premiered July 8-10 2019 at American Dance...

• ADF Premiere (2019)

  25 min (excerpt)

  Conceived and directed by Eiko Otake Dramaturg Mark McCloughan This excerpt includes pre-performance installation performed by DonChr...

• With Sam Miller (2019)

  This video was an excerpts from two performances, one at "Remembering Sam" event Wesleyan University in May 2019 and the other is at the...

• With Ishmael Houston Jones (2016 and 2019)

  The video combines EIko's talking duet with Ismael in 2016 and the 2019 duet performance at PICA's TBA festival.

• With Ishmael at PICA (2019)

  This is an excerpt of a duet between Eiko and Ishmael Houston-Jones. Eiko performed at PICA's TBA Festival 2019.

• With David Brick (2019)

  Eiko first worked with David Brick during the Platform 2016. Subsequently David asked Eiko to be "an agitator" for his ambitious Quiet Ci...

• With Chitra Vairavan (2019)

  EIko choreographed a solo to Chitra Vairavan with an idea of that a solo is a duet with invisible partner. After her performing that sol...

• With Iris McCloughan (2019)

  15 min

  Lightly edited archival footage of an excerpt from The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable Premiered July 8-10 2019 at ADF Camera by ...

• "Bodies" practice and performance (2019)

  8 min

  This piece combines two videos. The first part (PRACTICE), draws from three different sets of footage. Eiko and Don Christian Jones' rehe...

• With Alexis Moh (2019)

  Lightly edited archival footage of an excerpt from the second scene of The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable Premiered July 8-10 2019 ...

• Duet Project Scrap Book

  10 min

  An on-going compilation of Eiko's Duet Project.

• Friends: Merian and Eiko (2019)

  This video was created for and used as a pre-show video ( from house open to the welcome speech) in the work-in-progress showing of The D...

• Clothes from my mother's closet (2019)

  A scene from rehearsals working with Merian Soto at Temple University

• Tides of Manaunaun (2018)

  4 min

  The no cut take of Eiko performing with Margaret Leng Tan at the Cathedral of St John the Divine on November 20, 2018. Camera by Alexis...

• The Banshee (2018)

  3 min 30 sec

  The no cut take of Eiko performing with Margaret Leng Tan at the Cathedral of St John the Divine on November 20, 2018. . This was a part ...

• With DonChristian Jones (2018)

  This is an excerpt of a duet between DonChristian Jones and Eiko as a part of her Duet Project showing on November 20th, 2018 at the cath...

• With Iris McCloughan (2018)

  5 min

  Eiko performed this duet with Iris McCloughan as a part of the evening on Nov 20, 2018 at the Cathedral of St John the Divine

• With C.D.Wright (2018)

  This video includes C.D. Wright in Santiago Chile(2016) and Eiko's subsequent performance with the memories of her.

• Duets (2016-2017)

  After Eiko developed her solo performance practice, she has also opened herself for experimental duets. This video shows excerpts of her ...

• C.D. Wright Memorial (2016)

  Eiko was invited to perform at poet C.D. Wright memorial on October 20, 2016 at CUNY New York.

• C.D. Wright recites in Santiago (2016)

  Poet C.D. Wright recited her two poems in Santiago, Chile in a gallery at GAM (Centro de las artes, la cultura) that housed Eiko and Will...

• Four Duets (2016)

  While Eiko worked as a soloist, she also was occasionally engaged in dancing various duets. This video consists of three "Talking Duets" ...

• Open Studio with Okwui Okpokwasili (2016)

  5 min 12 sec Excerpt

  As part of River To River Festival and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's River 2016 To River Festival OPEN STUDIO, Eiko performed TALKIN...

• PLATFORM: Talking Duets 1 & 2 (2016)

  [LINK https://eikoandkoma.org/talkingduets]Talking Duets[LINK] is a playful structured improvisational score created and performed by Fren...

• Talking Duet with Emmanuelle Huynh (2016)

  Eiko invited Emmanuelle Huynh to participate in "Talking Duet" during the 2016 Danspace Project's Platform, "A Body in Places." Camera by...

• Two Bodies in Brussels (2015)

  In May 2015, Eiko joined French choreographer and dancer Emmanuelle Huynh in Brussels to perform at Thalie Art Foundation during the “W...

• Photo video with Emmanuelle Huynh (2015)

  A compilation of photos from Eiko's May 2015 performance with Emmanuelle Huynh in Brussels at the Thalie Art Foundation during the “Wab...

• Two Women (2014)

  This is the first duet Eiko created and performed in 2014 with a collaborator other than Koma, before her solo project and Duet project. ...

Eiko's Solo: A Body in Places

• Gallery performance at Alfred (2019)

  This footage combines the gallery view of a 3-projection video installation, A Body in Landscape, and Eiko's performance within the insta...

• With Red (2017)

  75 sec

  A fast pace edit of Eiko's solo performances in various sites in which she always carries her red cloth that travelled with Eiko to irrad...

• The Met Fifth Avenue (2017)

  On three Sundays in November 2017, Eiko performed a commissioned work, A Body in Places: Met Edition, at each of the three Met buildings:...

• The Met Cloister (2017)

  This is a one minute video from an all day performance at Metropolitan Museum Cloister Building on November 5, 2017. Eiko performed with ...

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorial (2017)

  7 min

  On August 6, 2017, Eiko performed at the New York Buddhist Church for their Hiroshima and Nagasaki memorial service. She was also invited...

• A Body at a Streetfair (2017)

  5min

  The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival produced Eiko's performance on July 20, 2017 during the Street Fair in Pittsfield, MA as a pop-up perfo...

• A Body in Atlanta (2017)

  Eiko traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for a week-long intensive residency at Dickinson College. As well as teaching classes, leading a public...

• Remembering Fukushima: Prologue (2017)

  8 min 55 sec

  This performance officially opened [LINK 4631]the Remembering Fukushima event on March 11, 2017 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine[L...

• Eiko performs at Topaz Arts (2017)

  Eiko hosted a workshop and a live performance at [LINK https://www.topazarts.org/2017/04/topaz-arts-presents-a-body-in-places-queens-editi...

• Remembering Fukushima: Epilogue (2017)

  10 min 46 sec

  This performance closed [LINK 4631]the Remembering Fukushima event on March 11, 2017 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine[LINK].. Eiko...

• A Stranger in the Cathedral (2017)

  As an artist-in-residence, Eiko performs unannounced in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. As the largest Cathedral in No...

• Eiko at the Cathedral (2017)

  Beginning in October 2016, Eiko was invited to be an Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John, and also to partake in The Christa...

• The Christa Project Opening Night (2016)

  2min

  Excerpt. Oct. 6, 2016 was the opening of the Christa Project at the Cathedral of St John the Divine. This large exhibition includes Eiko ...

• A Body on Wall Street (June 21, 2016)

  7 min 27sec

  Edited Video from the footage of Eiko's performance of A Body on Wall Street on June 21st at 5pm. Presented by 2016 River To River Festiv...

• A Body on Wall Street (Video Postcard June 22, 2016)

  Edited Short (3 min 40 sec) from Eiko's solo performance: A Body on Wall Street on June 22nd at 2pm, presented by 2016 River To River Fes...

• R2R 2016: A Body on Wall Street, 6/22 (Excerpt)

  Edited (9 min 30 sec) from the footage of Eiko's performance on June 22nd at 2pm. As part of 2016 River To River Festival, Eiko perfo...

• The Yard 2016: A Body in Menemsha

  Shot by Zachary Khoo. Edited by Alexis Moh. Eiko brought her [LINK 3836]A Body in Places[LINK] project to The Yard this June and perfor...

• ADF 2016: Weaver Street Market

  On May 15, 2016, presented by the American Dance Festival, Eiko performed A BODY IN A MARKET at Weaver Street Market in Chapel Hill , NC....

• ADF 2016: Cameron Village Library

  On May 15, 2016, presented by American Dance Festival, Eiko performed A Body in a Library at Cameron Village Regional Library (Raleigh, N...

• ADF 2016: Durham Farmer's Market Excerpt

  On May 14, 2016, presented by the American Dance Festival, Eiko performed A BODY IN A MARKET on Durham Farmers' Market in North Carolina....

• ADF 2016: Durham Farmer's Market Full

  Full length performance archive. American Dance Festival presented Eiko's [LINK 3836]A BODY IN PLACES[LINK] at Durham Farmers' Market on ...

• A Body in Vizcaya (2016)

  Excerpt. Presented by Tigertail Productions, Eiko performed A BODY IN PLACES at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami FL, on March 30, 2016...

• PLATFORM 2016: A Body in a Restaurant

  As part of Danspace Project's [LINK 4269]PLATFORM[LINK] 2016, A BODY IN PLACES, Eiko performed her solo at 9 AM on March 7, 2016 at the r...

• PLATFORM 2016: A Body in an Weaving Studio

  10 min 13 sec Edited

  As part of Danspace Project's 2016 [LINK 4269] Platform[LINK], Eiko danced her solo at Suzanne Tick's weaving studio in East Village. ...

• PLATFORM 2016: A Body in a Boutique

  5min 42 sec Edited

  As part of Danspace Project's [LINK 4267]PLATFORM[LINK] 2016, A BODY IN PLACES, Eiko performed her solo at noon on March 1 and 8, 2016 at...

• PLATFORM 2016: After Fukushima—Eiko Solo

  For Eiko's [LINK https://eikoandkoma.org/platformsolo]Friday, 9pm solo[LINK] on March 11, she performed in St. Mark's Church with the Fuku...

• PLATFORM 2016: Precarious #2

  For [LINK https://eikoandkoma.org/index.php?p=ek&id=4269]PLATFORM 2016: A Body in Places[LINK], presented by Danspace Project, nine dance ...

• PLATFORM 2016: A Body in Places solos

  4min 45 sec Edited

  This video, a compilation of PLATFORM 2016: Video Postcards 4,5,7, shows Eiko in various places in the East Village where she performed h...

• PLATFORM 2016 Video Postcard 7: A Body in Places Solos

  1min 34 sec Edited

  Weekly 'video postcards' made from Eiko's PLATFORM solos in the East Village (Feb 22-March 20, 2016), updated weekly on the [LINK https://...

• PLATFORM 2016 Video Postcard 6 with Paul Chan's works

  Weekly 'video postcards' made from Eiko's PLATFORM solos in the East Village (Feb 22-March 20, 2016), updated weekly on the [LINK https://...

• PLATFORM 2016 Video Postcard 5: A Body in Places Solos

  1 min 46

  Weekly 'video postcards' made from Eiko's PLATFORM solos in the East Village (Feb 22-March 20, 2016), updated weekly on the [LINK https://...

• PLATFORM 2016 Video Postcard 4: A Body in Places Solos

  Weekly 'video postcards' made from Eiko's PLATFORM solos in the East Village (Feb 22-March 20, 2016), updated weekly on the [LINK https://...

• PLATFORM 2016 Video Postcard 3: A Body in a Gallery

  1 min 28sec

  Weekly 'video postcards' made from Eiko's PLATFORM solos in the East Village (Feb 22-March 20, 2016), updated weekly on the [LINK https://...

• Video Postcard A Body in Santiago (Outdoor)

  Weekly 'video postcards' made for Eiko's PLATFORM (Feb 22-March 20, 2016), updated weekly on the [LINK https://www.danspaceproject.org/jou...

• Video Postcard: A Body in Santiago (Indoor)

  Weekly 'video postcards' made for Eiko's PLATFORM, updated weekly on the [LINK https://www.danspaceproject.org/journal/]Danspace Project J...

• Video Postcard: At the Pablo Neruda House

  On January 5, 2015, Eiko visited the Pablo Neruda House with poets C.D. Wright and forrest Gander. Eiko danced a brief exploration near t...

• Un Curepo en Lugares in Santiago (2016)

  16 min.

  Archival 16 minute. From January 6 through January 10, Eiko performed her A Body in Places (Un Cuuerpo en Lugares) ten times at GAM (Cen...

• A Body in an Observatory

  Eiko performed "A Body in Places" at Wesleyan University's Van Vleck Observatory on Nov 6-7 in commemoration of the commemorating its 100...

• A Body in Places 2014-2015

  A Body in Places is the omnibus title of Eiko’s first solo project. These fast paced excerpts illuminate how Eiko choreographs for and ...

• A Body with Hiroshima Panels (2015)

  For the Nov. 13, 2015 opening of the Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki at Pioneer Works, Eiko danced in honor of the Hiroshima Pan...

• A Body in an Unlived House (day)

  On Oct 4 and 5, 2015, Eiko performed three times each day at Wesleyan University's Alsop House. This video shows the Oct 4th afternoon pe...

• A Body in an Unlived House (night)

  On Oct 4 and 5, 2015, Eiko performed three times each day at Wesleyan University's Alsop House. This video shows the Oct 5th evening perf...

• A Body in Russell Library

  In continuation of [LINK https://eikoandkoma.org/abodyinplaces] her solo project[LINK], Eiko brought the second installation of [LINK http...

• A Body in a Station at Fulton Center (2015)

  As part of the River To River Festival presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Eiko performed [LINK 3774] A Body in a S...

• A Body in a Library (2015)

  In February 2015, Eiko brought her A Body in Places project to Wesleyan University's Olin Library. The largely student audience followed ...

• A Body in A Station (videos and photos. 4 min.)

  4 min 20 sec

  A four minute excerpt of A BODY IN A STATION, Eiko's 12 hour performance in Philadelphia station in the fall of 2014 presented by the Pen...

• A Body in a Station on Four Fridays (an excerpt. 18 min)

  18 min.

  This excerpt includes videos, still photos, and audience interviews. [LINK 3774]A Body in a Station[LINK] was a series of three-hour p...

• A Body in A Station (Rehearsal photos, 7 min)

  7 min

  This video was made from the photos of Eiko during the rehearsal of A BODY IN A STATION on September 26, 2014. Eiko performed the work fo...

• A Body in a Station (photo essay from the last performance)

  2 min 30 sec.

  This video was created from the photos Zack Zecha took during the last half hour of the three hour performance of A BODY IN A STATION, fr...

• A Body in a Station: Philadelphia (2 min excerpt)

  2 min 30 sec

  A short excerpt from Eiko's solo performance, [LINK 3774]A Body in a Station [LINK], at Philadelphia 30th Street Amtrak Station. Presente...

• A Body in a Station: The Ending of the last show

  4 min 45 sec

  In October 2014, presented by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Eiko performed in Philadelphia's 30th Station on four Fridays, t...

• A Body in Places (an edited excerpt)

  18 min.

  During the run of TWO WOMEN at the 2014 River to River Festival, Eiko rehearsed a version of her new solo work A BODY IN PLACES. Camera ...

• A Body in Places (a short excerpt)

  4min

  This is a part of a solo work Eiko is working on. Shot in the LMCC Arts Center of Governors Island during her residency in June 2014. Cam...

A Body in Fukushima

• A Body in Fukushima trailer 1

• A Body in Fukushima trailer 2 Ukedo Beach

• Revisiting Fukushima

  17 min

  This short video includes photos and observations at Tomioka in Fukushima Prefecture of Japan and Sakamoto station in Miyagi Prefecture ...

• A Body in Fukushima for screening and in-class presentation (2014-2017)

  47 min

  Eiko presented this film as a part of symposium titled A BODY IN FUKUSHIMA: REFLECTIONS ON THE NUCLEAR IN EVERYDAY LIFE, produced by the ...

• A Body in Fukushima - Ukedo

  This five minute video is a faster paced section of A Body in Fukushima, a video work entirely consisting of still photos shot by William...

• A Body in Fukushima: Winter 2014 (excerpt)

  5 min

  This video provides an introduction to Eiko's solo project [LINK 3765]A Body in Fukushima[LINK] and consists of only still photos William...

• A Body in Fukushima: Momouchi Summer

  This video piece was created as a part of photo exhibition, A BODY IN FUKUSHIMA, a collaboration between photographer William Johnston an...

• A Body in Fukushima: Summer 2014 (excerpt)

  6 min.

  This excerpt is the second introduction video for [LINK 3765]A Body in Fukushima[LINK], a collaboration between photographer William John...

• "A Body in Fukushima" (2014-2017/47 min/English/Metric)

  47 min.

  Eiko edited this video for a symposium A BODY IN FUKUSHIMA: REFLECTIONS ON THE IN EVERYDAY LIFE held on March 16, 2019 at University of T...

• A Body in Fukushima (2014-2017/47min) Japanese text

  Eiko added Japanese translation to the video that she edited for screening in Toronoto symposium. The video was shown in Tokyo

• A Body in Fukushima ( 2014-2017/47min/US measurement)

  This is the same edit of the video that was created for a symposium in University of Toronto but the metric system was changed to the US ...

Special Events

• Remembering Fukushima: Art and Conversations

  Eiko conceived, curated and produced a four-hour event at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine to commemorate the March 11 anniversary ...

• PLATFORM 2016: After Fukushima (excerpt)

  As part of the [LINK https://eikoandkoma.org/index.php?p=ek&id=4269]2016 PLATFORM: A Body in Places[LINK], Danspace Project, in collaborat...

• PLATFORM 2016: Conversation Without Walls

  On March 11, 2016, as part of Danspace Project's [LINK https://eikoandkoma.org/index.php?p=ek&id=4269]PLATFORM 2016[LINK] at St. Mark's Ch...

• A special citation at 2016 Bessies

  At the 2016 New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessies, Meredith Monk presented a Special Citation to Eiko's [LINK ...

Eiko Media Works

• Room (2020)

  5 min 25 sec

  Camera by DonChristian Jones Filmed during the Rauschenberg Residency Captiva, FL in November 2017 Edited by Eiko Otake during the 2020...

• Elegies (2019)

  ohn is Eiko's long time friend. It was in July 2018 when both of them were attending the tree planting ceremony of their mutual friend Sa...

• Run! (2019)

  5 min 48 sec

  This video will be shown as a part of the outdoor movement installation, "bodies," on March 29, 2019. "bodies" will be performed by Eiko ...

• A Body with California Landscapes (2019)

  14 min 35 sec

  This video shows the design/choreography of Eiko's three-channel installation on one screen. In a gallery, three sequences are projec...

• With Mother in Twilight (2019)

  Eiko performed for a camera, with an image of her mother in her coffin, in the woods near Alfred University during her residency in June ...

• Visiting Manzanar (2019)

  On April 30, 2019, Eiko and Alexis Moh, one of Eiko's collaborators in her Duet Project, visited the site of the Manzanar Historical Site...

• Night with Moths (2019)

  17min 34 sec

  This video shows how two different parts of videos are composed as a two screen video installation. Collaboration with Joseph Sheer(prin...

• Sequoia: River (2019)

  Shot in the California's Sequoia National Forest in May 2019. This video is a part of the collaboration between Eiko and Alexis Moh, a fi...

• Death Valley: My Stomach (2019)

  Shot in the Sand Dune in Death Valley in May 2019. This video is a part of the collaboration between Eiko and Alexis Moh, a film maker as...

• Death Valley: Eating Salt (2019)

  Shot in the Sand Dune in Death Valley in April 2019. This video is a part of the collaboration between Eiko and Alexis Moh, a film maker ...

• Death Valley: Sand (2019)

  2 min

  Shot in the Sand Dune in Death Valley on May 2, 2019. This video is a part of the collaboraiton between Eiko and Alexis Moh, a film maker...

• Sequoia: Root (2019)

  Shot in the California's Sequoia National Forest in May 2019. This video is a part of the collaboration between Eiko and Alexis Moh, a fi...

• A Duet With My Grandfather I Have Never Met (2018)

  9 min

  As a part of Eiko's new Duet Project: Distance is Malleable, Eiko creates a duet with her grandfather's paintings. Painter Chikuha Otake ...

• With Red (2018)

  28 min

  This video complies many of Eiko's solo site performances. The red cloth Eiko often (but not always) uses in her performance is the focus...

• Alone in the Cathedral (2017)

  12min 49sec

  As an artist-in-residence of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Eiko often performs unannounced during the Cathedral's open hours. But...

• Soak (2017)

  7min 19 sec

  The first video work created collaboratively with DonChritian as a part of Eiko's Duet Project Performed by Eiko Otake and DonChristia...

• Visit (2017)

  6 min 30 sec

  a video work collaboratively created by Eiko and DonChristian Jones as a part of The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable

• Tree (2017)

  3 min 24 sec

  Performed by DonChristian and Eiko Otake Camera by DonChristian and Eiko Otake Edit by Eiko Otake Created during the 2017 Rauschenberg...

• Sea (2017)

  7 min 24 sec

  Performed by Eiko Otake and DonChristian Camera by Eiko Otake and DonChristian Edit by Eiko Otake Created during the 2017 Rauschenberg...

• Night (2017)

  42 sec

  Camera by DonChristian Performed by Eiko and DonChristian Created during the 2017 Rauschenberg Residency for [LINK 4767]The Duet Projec...

• Fall (2017)

  3 min

  performed by Eiko Otake Camera by DonChristian Jones Created during the 2017 November Rauschenberg Residency

• A Body in East Village (2016)

  20 min

  Eiko's solo project, "A Body in Places," was the focus of [LINK 4268]Danspace Project's tenth PLATFORM[LINK], a month-long curated progra...

• A Body on Wall Street (2016)

  7 min 29 sec

  Performed as the third of a three-year curatorial collaboration with the River To River Festival, "A Body on Wall Street" is the latest c...

• Red in a Cathedral (2016)

  In 2016, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine invited Eiko to become an artist-in-residence. As such, Eiko is free to wander around, expl...

• A Body at Indian Point (2016)

  Indian Point Energy Center is a nuclear power plant on the east bank of the Hudson River, just south of Peekskill and 36 miles north of M...

• A Body in Lower Manhattan (2015)

  Prior to her performance of [LINK 3774] A Body in a Station [LINK] at Fulton Center, Eiko explores Lower Manhattan on June 6, 2015, Sat...

• After Rain (2015)

  1 min 53 sec

  A short video Eiko created from photographs taken by William Johnston during Eiko's residency at LMCC's Art Center at Governors Island in...

• A Body with Commercials (2015)

  37 sec

  Eiko in front of Fulton Center Commercial Screen Eiko performed A BODY IN A STATION in Fulton Center on June 22-24, 2015 as part of Ri...

Eiko Exhibitions and Installations

• A Body in Places Exhibition at PNCA

  Co-presented by PICA and PNCA as a part of 2019 TBA Festival, this exhibition at PNCA Gallery was curated by Kristan Kennedy and Joseph S...

• Alfred University IEA Lobby Video Installation

  The three works Eiko created during her residency at Alfred University, I.E.A.(Institute for Electronic Arts) was exhibited in the buildi...

• Performance with California Landscapes (2019)

  ３min 38 sec

  In this video, Eiko performs within her video installation in a gallery at Alfred University. Three projections show composed sequences o...

• Video Installation: California Landscapes (2019)

  12 min 32 sec

  This video shows how three projections of California Landscapes creates a three-projection video installation in an intimate gallery spac...

• Video Installation: A Body in Places at Colorado College (2016)

  Photos by Patrizia Herminjard November 2016 Colorado College

• R2R 2016: Video Installation: A BODY WITH WATER

  A virtual tour of the video installation [LINK 4480]A Body with Water[LINK] created by Eiko for the 2016 River To River Festival. Videos ...

• A Body in Fukushima at the Cathedral of St John the Divine

  The video shows the exhibition of A Body in Places, a collaborative work between William Johnston and Eiko Otake at the Cathedral of St J...

• PLATFORM 2016: Tuesday Installations

  [LINK https://eikoandkoma.org/PlatformInstallation]Weekly installations[LINK] in the St Mark's Church sanctuary as part of [LINK https://ei...

• A Body in Fukushima at GAM, Santiago, Chile

  4min. 22sec.

  This video shows the layout of the photo exhibition A BODY IN FUKUSHIMA (Un Cuerpo en Fukushima), a collaborative project between photogr...

• A Body in Fukushima at GOCA

  3:55

  This video, shot and edited by Patrizia Herminjard, shows the photo exhibit of A BODY IN FUKUSHIMA at the Gallery of Contemporary Arts of...

• A Body in Fukushima at Wesleyan

  A Body in Fukushima features photographs by William Johnston of Eiko taken in Fukushima, Japan and videos Eiko created from Johnston's st...

• A Body in Fukushima at Pioneer Works

  A Body in Fukushima, curated by Pioneer Works Director Gabriel Florenz, presents a series of color photographs by artist Eiko Otake and p...

• Residue of Nakedness

  90 sec

  From November 27-December 18, 2012, Colorado College presented video installation Residue of Nakedness in IDEA space co-curated with the ...

Koma's Solo projects

• The Ghost Festival

  This new dance/art project by Koma is his first [LINK 3900]solo work[LINK]. Koma appears at the site towing the trailer with his Jeep. Tr...

• Washington Flower

E&K Dance For Camera

• 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 premier...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 1...

• Wallow (1984)

  11 minutes

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

• 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...

E&K Documentary

• 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...

• Eiko & Koma at YBCA (2012)

  2 minutes

  A promotion video created by YBCA staff for Eiko & Koma's two week engagement in 2012 season. The video includes archival footage and in...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Dancing in Hospital (2005)

  Eiko & Koma were invited to perform at Duke University Hospital. Guided by the Hospital's art program, they danced in individual rooms of...

• 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...

• 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...

• Offering in Manhattan (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...

E&K Performance Excerpts

• 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...

• 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...

• 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

• 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...

• 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...

• Mourning (2007)

  9 minutes

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

• 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 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) full length

  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...

• Death Poem - Eiko's solo (excerpt. 2005)

  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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Event Fission (1980) Excerpt

  18 min.

  This video is from Eiko & Koma's 1980 outdoor performance in "Art on the Beach" on the Hudson River landfill, produced by Creative Time. ...

• Event Fission (1980) Shorter excerpt

  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 ...

Delicious Movement Workshop

• 2018 Delicious Movement at Colorado College

  This video was created by Ella Grossman as her final project of Eiko's intensive course (three and a half week every day). She videoed a...

• Delicious Movement Workshop in Tokyo 2017 (with English subtitles)

  Produced by Kotaro Aoki, Shingo Umehara, and Kaito Abe, the workshop took place at Tokyo University Komaba campus. The video was filmed...

• Delicious Movement Workshop at The Goat Farm

  This video is a 2 min excerpt of a 2 hour workshop Eiko gave at the Goat Farm in Atlanta, on March 22, 2017. Presented by Tanz Farm, the ...

• Delicious Movement: Classes and students' final projects

  49 min

  Eiko edited this video for a video lecture on her teaching. The examples of her students works are included.

• The Atomic Bomb: A Study in Movement and History

  8 minutes

  A short documentary about the course dancer/choreographer Eiko Otake co-taught with History Professor William Johnston at Wesleyan Univer...

• 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...

• Private Body/ Public Place (5 min)

  5 minutes

  This is the five minute excerpt of a movement installation performed by the students of the Eugene Lang College/New School with Eiko who ...

• Private Body/Public Place (17min)

  17 minutes

  This is the seventeen minute excerpt of a movement installation performed by the students of the Eugene Lang College/New School with Eiko...

• Student Movement Task Force at Wesleyan University

Interviews and Conversations

• A Body in Fukushima Artists Conversation

  44 minutes

  Photographer William Johnston and Eiko talk about their collaboration project, [LINK 3765]A Body in Fukushima[LINK]. William Johnston...

• Sam Miller speaks at the opening of Eiko & Koma's exhibition

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Minnesota Public Radio Interview on 'Naked'

  Minnesota Public Radio November 9, 2010 Interview by Euan Kerr on NAKED at the Walker Art Center

• 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...

• Radio Interview for the Dublin 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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Charles Reinhart Speaks

  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...

• 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...

Artstic collaborations and responses

• CD recites her poems at Eiko's performance

  CD Wrigh, along with her husband and poet Forest Gander, collaborated with Eiko on what turned out to be her last public presentation. Sh...

• Forrest Gander recites "Faithfulness"

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

• 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 "Entanglement"

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

• Idris Goodwin recites "A Rhyme of Residue"

  After visiting the installation, Idris Goodwin creates and recites a poem, a Rhyme of Residue. In the fall of 2012, Eiko taught a mon...

• Platform Tuesday Installations

  This video chronicles three Installations and Artists Responses presented on three Tuesdays, March 1, 8, and 15, as part of Danspace Proj...