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Eiko and Koma Nurture a Tree in Brooklyn |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Gary Parks |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,054 Words, 11,766 Characters |
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Over the past decade and a half, the Japanese-born team of Eiko and Koma has developed a body of work that is uniquely its own. Although they are usually reviewed by dance critics, their art is closer to the great tradition of silent acting you can see in films made before the sound era. Theirs is a powerful art, due both to their great presence on stage and to their subject matter: life after man's fall from grace.
Some writers have speculated that the tortured figures Eiko and Koma depict in their works can be seen either as primordial tribespeople, a la Kei Takei (to name another Japanese artist now based in New York), or as survivors of a global disaster yet to come. I don't see a focus on either the past or the future. As I understand it, Eiko and Koma mean to show us a hell tha...
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...ions, to which the only possible answer at times seems to be despair, in a way that challenges us to provide a response. This is markedly different from the indulgent butoh artists, who describe a degradation with no possible hope of improvement. Perhaps better than anyone else, Eiko and Koma remind us that our present hectic lives are only a small part of a much larger and harsher existence.
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