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| Exhibition Title from the MCA Chicago. Photo by Eiko |
I visited this exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and I think this is a pretty good overview of the main points for the exhibition and the dancers themselves. This article is taken from examiner.com and written by Laelle Valdez (http://www.examiner.com/article/eiko-koma-at-the-mca-chicago?cid=db_articles)
"Contemporary dancers Eiko & Koma bring
to light the beauty in silence, detail, and anticipation. Through
their original choreography and performances, the duo has been blurring
the boundaries between dance and performance art for almost forty years.
Eiko & Koma are true artists, collaborating to conceptualize and
execute not only their physical performances, but also the accompanying
sets, costumes, and sound scores.
Their recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago was part of an ongoing retrospective that they have embarked on in partnership with multiple institutions across the country. The retrospective hopes to summarize and revisit their past works in a way that will inspire and lead to future artistic endeavors. With a novel approach to the exhibition space design, Eiko & Koma transformed their gallery into a live performance set, a collage of their history in print, and a video exhibition of past performances. This multi-media display effectively portrayed the extraordinary breadth of their achievements, while highlighting the vacancies within the academic display of artworks in a museum setting.
Eiko & Koma performed multiple times throughout the exhibition.
The performances within the gallery space allowed the audience to come
and go, experiencing the creation of an organic and living art. When
they weren’t physically present, the artists were represented by a video
image projection onto the performance space of one of their old sets.
During the performances, the intimate theatre space was completely
silent except for the sounds of nature and the hushed breathing of the
performers. The audience watched mesmerized by the slow and controlled,
tension wrought movements of the dancers as their limbs tangled and
unfurled, telling a beautiful tale of yearning and desire.
While their work doesn’t feature dance in the usual definition of the word, it is evident in their style of movement, the grace and fluidity with which they control their bodies, and the poise and discipline with which they carry themselves onstage, that this is dance. Dance in one of its most basic and beautiful forms."
Please follow the links within the article to visit the Eiko & Koma home page and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago home page
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| Photo Timeline. Photo by: Nathan Keay @ MCA Chicago |
Their recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago was part of an ongoing retrospective that they have embarked on in partnership with multiple institutions across the country. The retrospective hopes to summarize and revisit their past works in a way that will inspire and lead to future artistic endeavors. With a novel approach to the exhibition space design, Eiko & Koma transformed their gallery into a live performance set, a collage of their history in print, and a video exhibition of past performances. This multi-media display effectively portrayed the extraordinary breadth of their achievements, while highlighting the vacancies within the academic display of artworks in a museum setting.
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| Photo by Nathan Keay @ MCA Chicago |
While their work doesn’t feature dance in the usual definition of the word, it is evident in their style of movement, the grace and fluidity with which they control their bodies, and the poise and discipline with which they carry themselves onstage, that this is dance. Dance in one of its most basic and beautiful forms."
Please follow the links within the article to visit the Eiko & Koma home page and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago home page
The quoted article was written by Laelle Valdez. All opinions and thoughts belong to her.
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