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Eiko Otake’s A Body in Tokyo

 
Eiko Otake
After studying with Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo in Japan in the 1970s, Eiko Otake studied with Manja Chmiel in Germany and Lucas Hoving in the Netherlands. She moved to New York in 1976, where she pursued a unique style of body expression as part of Eiko & Koma. In 2014 she began her solo career with A Body in Places, which has attracted much attention and been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA and the Walker Art Center, among others. She was the first Asian artist to win the ADF Awards in 2004, and the Dance Magazine Awards in 2006.
 
https://www.eikootake.org/
 
A Body in Tokyo
Eiko Otake has been based in New York since 1976, and became well established in the US and internationally as part of the “Eiko & Koma” performance duo. Since 2014 she has been working on her well-acclaimed solo project A Body in Places, and the clip shown here is taken from its Japan premiere. Filmed ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, this version of the project follows Otake as she places her body in multiple locations around Tokyo — around Ueno (Ueno Station, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Nakamachi Shopping Street etc.), and the underground spaces of the Former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen Station and the Shibuya River culvert — as images of Fukushima overlap with her body, projected onto her costume and the surround buildings.
 

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Full Interview with Eiko Otake

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Eiko Otake’s A Body in Tokyo
In cooperation with Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13 Tokyo Real Underground
Film Production & Editing: iina naoto
 
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