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Article: Eiko and Koma. (Asia Society, New York)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- June 14, 1986
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Eiko and Koma
Eiko and Koma--Eiko's the woman of the team--are usually reviewed by dance writers, although what they do is closer to silent acting. It could even be considered a form of clowning, an extreme version of Pierrot and Pierrette. Whatever you call it, it's fine art: sensuous and sensible and full of suspense, although to appreciate the last you must become accustomed to the dancers' pace of a step every ten seconds. The style is grounded in Butoh, a mutant species of dance theater that developed in the couple's native Japan a quarter-century ago. You can taste in it well-known performance traditions (Noh, Kabuki); Western modern dance (notably the ...
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...Eiko and Koma's dance works mine the most elemental ... minute study, undulates with currents. Eiko and Koma posed the challenge of portraying ... year-old son) makes a slow entrance, then Eiko enters, delicately stepping. Her arm reaches ...
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