EVENT ARCHIVE - DDF 2011
Eiko & Koma
REGENERATION: RAVEN / NIGHT TIDE / WHITE DANCE
- Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre - see note below regarding access restrictions on May 16.
- Dates: Monday 16 & Tuesday 17
- Nationality: Japan/USA
- Time: 8pm - Monday 16 & 7pm - Tuesday 17
- Duration: 60 mins (short pause between each work)
- Tickets: €20 / €18 Conc / €16 Early Bird
“You connect to their world not by watching, but by imagining that you are living inside their bodies.” (Gia Kourlas, The New York Times)
On scorched canvas littered with raven feathers, Eiko & Koma present their latest piece Raven (2010) followed by Night Tide (1984) and an excerpt of White Dance (1976, revived 2010). This triptych elicits a profound contemplation of nature, time and human desire and is suggestive of moving paintings. Regeneration, part of Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project (2009-2012), is a means of discovering, within their own past, the means of moving forward.
Collaborative partners for 40 years, Eiko & Koma are known for groundbreaking dance works that stretch boundaries. Eiko & Koma have long experimented with modes of presentation, performing in museums, a trailer – even a river and a graveyard – placing their bodies in landscapes evoking epic expanses of time.
Born and raised in Japan, Eiko & Koma have been resident in the USA since 1976. They studied with Kazuo Ohno in Japan and with Manja Chmiel in Germany before moving to New York. They have been honoured with two Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards, a joint MacArthur Fellowship, the Dance Magazine Award and the Samuel Scripps/American Dance Festival Award.
Choreography & Performance: Eiko & Koma
Contains nudity.
* PLEASE NOTE*
All regular entrances to Trinity College will be closed to patrons attending Eiko & Koma’s performance at 8pm on Monday May 16, due to another event taking place at the college.
The only entrance on May 16 will be via a pedestrian gate at Park Lane East.
This laneway is opposite the Trinity Capital Hotel on Pearse Street, near the junction of Pearse St. and Tara St.
This entrance will be open from 6.30pm until the end of the performance and will give access only to the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Please look out for DDF Volunteers on Pearse St, who will direct audience members to Park Lane East.
Note that these restrictions apply only to the performance on Monday May 16.
Embassy of the United States of America in Ireland
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
