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MOURNING
These three middle-aged artists are all first-generation Asian-Americans. Eiko and Koma and pianist Margaret Leng Tan have been influenced by each other’s work for more than two decades. These idiosyncratic spirits share the stage for the first time. For them, Mourning is a grieving not only for man’s cruelty to man, but a remorse for the pain that humans have inflicted upon the earth and all of its living beings. By sharing their independent aesthetics, Ms. Tan and Eiko & Koma fuse dance and music in ways that foster both empathy and solitude.
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GRAIN
Eiko & Koma premiered this duet in 1983 at the Kampo Cultural Center in New York. It toured widely for more than ten years, but has since been seen only rarely. Set to Japanese, Tibetan and Indonesian folk music, the work depicts with urgency the ways rice is central to Asian society the way bread is essential to Western culture–the staff of life. Charles Reinhart, Director of American Dance Festival wanted Eiko & Koma to think about the long-term survival of their unique body of work, and asked them to set Grain on Charian and Peace (two Cambodian teenagers who performed with Eiko and Koma in Cambodian Stories). This was the first time that other dancers performed a work originally made by and for Eiko & Koma.
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THE VAGABOND PROJECT
Eiko & Koma will collaborate with busker James Graseck during the winter and spring of 2008-2009 to create a radically reconfigurable framework for sharing their art with people. Jimmy is a Juilliard-trained violinist who, in addition to concertizing at the likes of Carnegie Hall, has excavated a niche for himself in the New York City subway system. He shares Eiko & Koma’s ideal of exposing high quality work to people who were not necessarily expecting to encounter it. He has an immense repertoire of violin masterworks, from Romantic warhorses to transcriptions of unfamiliar melodies. Eiko & Koma have more than three decades of dramaturgical ideas and scenic solutions in their metaphorical trunk. Together, the collaborators will devise works ranging from sumptuous proscenium pieces to outdoor spectacles to exquisite miniatures appropriate for vans and vestibules, some of which they hope to share with the public free of charge. Eiko, Koma and Jimmy see their Vagabond Project as an extended journey full of discovery and surprise for themselves, their presenter partners and their audiences.
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DELICIOUS MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Delicious Movement Workshops are designed for all people who love to move or who want to love to move with delicious feelings. You don’t have to be a dancer to enjoy the experience. The workshops are also for actors, poets, musicians, visual artists or anyone interested in developing their creativity.
The workshops are noncompetitive and appropriate to all levels of training and ability. Eiko & Koma hope each participant will develop lifelong pleasure in dancing any time, anywhere available to them, whether professionally or in their living room.
The workshop is grounded in Eiko & Koma’s movement vocabulary as well as their compositional and performance techniques, which employ images, body articulation, floor work and transformation. However, the aim of the workshop is not to teach these. Rather, the participants, through their personal digestion of the material and of the improvisation and nonchalant partnership which supports it, are encouraged to acquire personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body. They are guided through a series of exercises designed to increase skills and awareness in the areas of focus, coordination and stance. Imagery is used as a creative stimulus. |
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