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Article: EAST (COAST) MEETS WEST (COAST).(Eiko, Koma, Anna Halprin collaboration)(related article: Halprin's Expressive Arts Therapy at Tampala Institute)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Eiko & Koma Meld Styles with Anna Halprin
A REVOLVING PORTABLE CAVE with stringy stalactites is lit from below as though from bubbling lava. The dancers Eiko and Koma fade into view, each in a separate hollow of this dreamlike environment. They are survivors, victims of a natural or unnatural disaster. Wearing a swath of rag or maybe nothing, ashen faced, bereft, their genders can barely be discerned from a distance. Existentially alone in this fire-and-ice, end-of-the-world scenario, they inch toward each other. The audience waits, with schooled patience, for the next small thing to happen. Depending on your inner resources, the wait can seem like mere ...