Eiko & Koma will be making special appearances in December and January that examine their creative process (photo by Anna Lee Campbell)
Saturday, December 4, Delicious Movement Workshop, Japan Society, 333 East 47th St., $40, 1:00 – 5:00
Friday, January 21, Performance & Lecture, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 116th St. & Broadway, free with RSVP
www.eikoandkoma.org
For nearly forty years, the Japanese team of Eiko & Koma have been choreographing and performing humanistic dances and site-specific events around the world, focusing on the intense, emotional beauty of slow physical movement. The MacArthur Fellowship winners, who have created such pieces as WHITE DANCE, BREATH, OFFERING, HUNGER, MOURNING, and THE CARAVAN PROJECT, will be presenting two special evenings that examine their working process. On December 4, Eiko & Koma will be at the Japan Society for the four-hour “Delicious Movement Workshop,” in which they will lead participants, who need no prior dance experience, through a series of mental and physical exercises that fall into their seventeen-part manifesto; “When we give workshops,” they note on their website, “we share what we think and what we do with the hope that other people can also enjoy the movements and images we like to be engaged in. In our class, people discover commonalities and differences between each other and with us.” Then, on January 21, Eiko & Koma will be at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre for a free performance and lecture in honor of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture’s twenty-fifth anniversary; admission is free but advance RSVP is required.