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ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENTS
2014 – present: Solo Performer, Choreographer, and Director
1973 – 2014: Artistic Co-Director, Choreographer, Performer of Eiko & Koma
AWARDS
Eiko Otake
2022: Bessies (New York Dance and Performance Award) Nomination
2021: Honorary PhD (Colorado College)
2021: Bessies (New York Dance and Performance Award) Nomination
2020: Sam Miller Performance Award (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council)
2016: Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Bessies (New York Dance and Performance Award) Special Citation
2015: Art Matters Award
2012: Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (inaugural award)
Eiko & Koma
2007, 2009: Alaska AIR (Artist-in-Residence) Program Fellowship
2006: United States Artists Fellowship (inaugural award), Dance Magazine Award
2004: The Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award (for lifetime contributions to American Modern Dance), Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to Cambodia
1996-2001: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
1987: McKnight Fellowship
1987, 1996: New York Foundation for the Arts/Choreography Fellowship
1984, 1990: Bessies (New York Dance and Performance Award)
1984: Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1983: Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Fellowship
1982: National Endowment for the Arts/Choreographers Fellowship Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS)
GALA HONOREE
2025: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
2016: Danspace Project
PERFORMANCE ENGAGEMENTS
Eiko Otake
2025: Harlem Stage (New York, NY)
2025: UCLA Center for Art of Performance (CAP) (Los Angeles, CA)
2025: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
2024: Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, NY)
2024: Stanford University (Stanford, CA) with Kronos Quartet
2023: Asia Society Museum (New York, NY)
2023: Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, NY)
2023: Carnegie Hall Zankel Hall (New York, NY) with Kronos Quartet
2023: Castelli Gallery (Danspace Project) (New York, NY)
2023: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (Colorado Springs, CO)
2022: ASU Gammage (Tempe, AZ)
2022: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ)
2022: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (New York, NY)
2022: The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, IL)
2022: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) (Chicago, IL)
2021: LMCC & NYU Skirball, Belvedere Plaza at Battery Park City (New York, NY)
2021: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Nuclear Energy Sculpture Plaza (Chicago, IL)
2021: American Dance Festival, Maplewood Cemetery (Durham, NC)
2021: Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
2021: Tokyo Real Underground Festival (Tokyo, Japan)
2020: Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, NY)
2019: UCLA Center for Art of Performance (CAP) (Los Angeles, CA)
2019: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival (Portland, OR)
2019: Cloud Gate Theater (Taipei, Taiwan)
2019: American Dance Festival (Durham, NC)
2019: Columbia University (New York, NY)
2019: Toronto Reference Library (Toronto, Ontario)
2018: Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, NY)
2018: Emelin Theater (Mamaroneck, NY)
2018: 92nd Street Y (New York, NY)
2017: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters, The Met Breuer (New York, NY)
2017: Dance Place (Washington, DC)
2017: Topaz Arts (New York, NY)
2017 Tanz Farm (Atlanta, GA)
2017: Jacob’s Pillow (Becket, MA)
2014–2016: River to River Festival (New York, NY)
2016: The Yard (Martha’s Vineyard, MA)
2016: Flynn Center (Burlington, VT)
2015, 2016: American Dance Festival (Durham, NC)
2016: Tigertail Productions (Miami, FL)
2016: Danspace Project (New York, NY)
2016: Santiago a Mil International Festival (Santiago, Chile)
2015–2017: Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
2015: M+ Museum (Hong Kong)
2014: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Eiko & Koma (selected list)
2017: Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
2014: Arizona State University Gammage (Tempe, AZ)
2013: Kuandu Arts Festival (Taipei, Taiwan)
2013: Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
2013, 2010, 2004, 1995: Taipei National University of the Arts (Taipei, Taiwan)
2012, 2011, 2006: University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
2012, 2006: Red Cat (Los Angeles, CA)
2012, 2006, 1999: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
2011: Baryshnikov Art Center (New York, NY
2011: Tigertail Productions (Miami, FL)
2011: Dublin Dance Festival (Dublin, Ireland)
2011: Brown University (Providence, RI)
2010–2011: Park Avenue Armory (New York, NY)
2011, 2008: Alverno College (Milwaukee, WI)
2011, 2006: MCA Chicago (Chicago, IL)
2011, 2006: North Fourth Art Center (Albuquerque, NM)
1983–2011: American Dance Festival (Durham, NC)
2010, 2008, 2006, 2002: Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
2010, 2007, 2004: Danspace Project (New York, NY)
2010, 2008, 2003: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
2009, 2008, 2006: MANCC Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
2009, 2007: Alaska Dance Theater (Anchorage, AK)
2008: Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
2008: University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
2008, 1993, 1989: The Joyce Theater (New York, NY)
2006: Eco Festival (Boulder, CO)
2006: Pannonhalma Festival (Pannonhalma, Hungary)
2006, 2002, 1991: Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
2006, 2005, 2004: Reyum Institute of Arts & Culture (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
2006, 2000: University of Arizona (Tempe, AZ)
2006, 1996, 1991: Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum (Hiroshima, Japan)
2004: Dakini Tanzwerkstatt (Biel, Switzerland)
2004: Tanzhaus Wasserwerk (Zurich, Switzerland)
2002: Earthdance (Plainfield, MA)
2008, 2003, 2002: Poland International Dance Festival (Bytom, Poland)
2000, 1997, 1991, 1988, 1986: Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival (New York, NY)
1999: Pittsburgh Dance Council (Pittsburgh, PA)
1998: Whitney Museum for American Arts (New York, NY)
1995: Guangdong International Theater Festival (Guangdong, China)
1995: Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME)
1993, 1984: International Summer Academy of Dance (Cologne, Germany)
1986: Centrum Foundation (Port Townsend, WA)
1984: Avignon Festival (Avignon, France)
1984: Holland Festival (Netherlands)
1981: Tangente (Montreal, Quebec)
1981: Munich International Theater Festival (Munich, Germany)
1980: Cornish Art Institute (Seattle, WA)
PERFORMANCE WORKS
Eiko Otake
2025: Soak with DonChristian Jones
2025: What Is War with Wen Hui
2024: Stone I with Margaret Leng Tan
2023: With the Dead*
2021: Monologues
Slow Turn*
They did not hesitate*
2017 – present: Duet Project: Distance is Malleable
2019: with Ann Carlson
2019: with Beverly McIver
2019: with David Brick
2019: with Forrest Gander
2019: with John Killacky
2019: with Ralph Samuelson
2019, 2021: with Merian Soto
2022, 2019, 2016: with Ishmael Houston-Jones
2022, 2019, 2018, 2017: with DonChristian Jones
2022, 2019, 2018: with Iris McCloughan
2019, 2018: with Alexis Moh
2019, 2018: with C.D. Wright
2022, 2018: with Margaret Leng Tan
2018: with Chitra Vairavan
2018: with Sam Miller
2018, 2017: with Chikuha Otake
2018, 2017: with Kyoko Hayashi
2016, 2015: with Emmanuelle Huynh
2014 – present: A Body in Places*
2021, 2020: A Body in a Cemetery*
2018: A Body in Places: Met Edition
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015: A Body in a Library
2016: A Body on Wall Street*
2016: A Body on Governors Island*
2016: A Body at a Farmer’s Market*
2016: A Body in Moran Plant*
2016: A Body in Mannemsha*
2016: A Body in Vizcaya*
2016: A Body in a Cathedral*
2016: A Body in a Gallery*
2016: A Body in a Senior Citizen Center*
2016: A Body in a Boutique*
2016: A Body in a Restaurant*
2016: A Body in a Bookstore*
2015: A Body in a Weaver’s Studio*
2015: A Body in Hong Kong*
2015: A Body in an Observatory*
2015, 2014: A Body In a Station*
2015: Talking Duet
2014: Two Women
2014: A Nuisance
2014: Private Body/Public Place
Eiko & Koma Stage Works
2014: Desert Sighting*
2013: Flower Dance
2012: Fragile
2011–2012: The Caravan Project Revisited*
2011: Water*
2010: Regeneration
2010: White Dance (Revival)
2009: Raven
2008: Hunger
2007: Grain (Revival)
2007: Cambodian Stories Revisited*
2007: Mourning
2007: Quartet
2006: Cambodian Stories
2005: Death Poem
2004: Duet
2004: Tree Song*
2002: Offering*
2001: Be With
2000: When Nights Were Dark
1999: Snow
1998: Pulse
1997: River (proscenium version)
1995: Autumn Passage
1995: River*
1993: Wind
1991: Land
1989: Passage
1989: Memory
1989: Rust
1988: Tree
1986: New Moon Stories
1986: By The River
1985: Thirst
1984: Night Tide
1984: Elegy
1983: Beam
1983: Grain
1981: Nurse’s Song
1980: Event Fission*
1979–1981: Trilogy
1979: Fluttering Black
1978: Before The Cock Crows
1977: Fur Seal
1976: White Dance
Eiko & Koma Living Installation
2013: The Caravan Project (MoMA)*
2010: Naked (Walker Art Center)
1998: Breath (Whitney)
* Outdoor Works and Site Works
SELECTED GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Eiko Otake
2023: I Invited Myself, vol. III: Duets (media installation) at The Fabric Museum and Workshop (PA)
2023: I Invited Myself, vol. III: A Body (media plus exhibition) at Asian Arts Initiative (PA)
2023: Drawing in Circles (video installation) with Joan Jonas at Castelli Gallery (NYC)
2023: Mother (video installation) at the Historic Chapel in The Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, NY)
2023: I Invited Myself, vol. II (media plus exhibition) at Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (CO)
2022: I Invited Myself, vol. I (media installation) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL)
2016 – 2019: A Body in Places (video installation) at Colorado College (CO), Danspace Project (NYC), Wesleyan University (CT), PNCA (Portland, OR)
2014 – 2019: A Body in Fukushima (photo exhibition and video installation) at Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC), Colorado College (CO), Danspace Project (NYC), Gabriela Mistral Cultural Centre for Santiago a Mil Festival (Santiago, Chile), Flynn Art Center (VT), Wesleyan University (CT), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (PA), PNCA (OR)
2017: A Body in Places (video installation) at Dance Place (DC)
2016: A Body with Water (video installation) at River to River Festival (NYC)
2012: Residue of Nakedness (video installation) at Colorado College (CO)
Eiko & Koma
2011: Tea House
2011: Residue
2011: Naked: Video Installation
2011: Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty (MCA Chicago)
2011: On Nakedness: Video Installation
2009: Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty (Wesleyan University)
1999: Breath
VIDEO WORKS
Eiko Otake
2024: Mist (collaboration with Jingqiu Guan)
-Selected by Greensboro Dance Film Festival, Munich New Wave Short Film Festival, Tokyo International Short Film Festival, Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival, Roma Short Film Festival, New York Tri-State Film Festival, and Seoul International Short Film Festival
2023: a foreigner (collaboration with Patrizia Herminjard)
-World premiere at Dance on Camera Festival 2024
-Selected for Life in Motion: A Colorado Dance Film Festival, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Portland Dance Film Fest, and San Francisco Dance Film Festival
-Honorable Mention at Pittsburgh International Dance Film Festival
2023: A Body in Wyoming (collaboration with Liz Sargent)
2022: No Rule Is Our Rule (collaboration with Wen Hui)
-Selected by Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Munich New Wave Film Festival, WRPN Women’s International Film Festival, and Kalakari Film Festival
-Won Best Feature Documentary at the Japan International Film Festival and Best Feature Film at Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival2014
2021: A Body in Fukushima
-World premiere at the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight Festival 2022
-Screened at FICA – International Environmental Film Festival, Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival, ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival, 2023 International Uranium Film Festival, Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival, and Yokohama Triennale
2021: A Body in Tokyo
-Selected by Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Munich New Wave Short Film Festival, and Madrid International Film Festival, and Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival
-Won Best Documentary Short at Tokyo International Short Film Festival, Roma Short Film Festival, and Japan International Film Festival
2021: A Body in a Cemetery
2020: Virtual Studio
Room, Visit, Another Day, Fish House, June 9, Rain, Attending, Your Morning is My Night, Seagull
2019: Elegies, Moths, Twilight with Mother
2017: The Duet Project (in collaboration with DonChristian Jones)
Hose, Wet, Tree, Room, Soak, Sea, Visitor, Drowned, Night, Fall
2017: Trilogy—A Stranger in a Cathedral, Red, Alone in a Cathedral
2016: Trilogy—A Body in East Village (screened at Dance for Camera Festival)
2016: Trilogy—Hong Kong, Miami, Wall Street
2015: Video Postcard (20 variations)
2014–2019: A Body in Fukushima (with photos by William Johnston)
2014: After A Rain (with photos by William Johnston)
2009: The Atomic Bomb: A Study in Movement and History
Eiko & Koma: Dances for Camera
2011: Wake
1999: Breath
1988: Undertow
1987: Husk
1985: Lament
1985: Bone Dream
1984: Wallow
1983: Tentacle
Eiko & Koma: Video Documentaries
2012: 38 Works by Eiko & Koma
2010: Eiko & Koma: The Retrospective Project
2009: Dancing in Water: The Making of River
2005: The Making of Cambodian Stories
2005: Dance at Hospital
2004: My Parents: Eiko and Koma
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018: Remembering Fukushima: Art and Conversations at the Cathedral – Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC)
2016: Platform Film Series A Body in Places – Anthology of Film Archives (NYC)
2016: After Fukushima (24 hour event with 24 guests artists’ performances) – Danspace Project (NYC)
2016: Platform Installations – Danspace Project (NYC)
2011: Multi-media installation and exhibition, Residue – New York Public Library, Astor Gallery (NYC)
2011: Retrospective Exhibition, Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty – Museum of Contemporary Arts Chicago (Chicago, IL), co-curated with Peter Taub
2006: Dance and Media – Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
2004: Dancing Asia/New York – Asia Society (NYC)
PUBLICATIONS
2024: “Letters” in Dance History(s) Imagination as a Form of Study Ed. Annie-B Parson and Thomas DeFrantz. Dancing Foxes Press and Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
2023:“Memo on Teaching Delicious Movement: Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty” in Movement Research Performance Journal Summer/Fall 2023
2021: A Body in Fukushima Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
2019: “Performing the History of A Body in Places” ASAP/Journal Vol. 4.1
2016: A Body in Places (Danspace Project Platform Catalogue)
2015: “Experiment and Experience” Contact Quarterly
2011: Eiko & Koma: Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty (comprehensive monograph of Eiko & Koma's work) Ed. Joan Rothfuss, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
2011: “Feeling Wind, Feeling Gaze” included in Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces. Ed. Carolyn Pavlik. University Press of Florida.
2010: “Kyoko Hayashi Writes in Mourning” in From Trinity to Trinity Station Hill Press Barrytown, NY.
2002: “A Dancer Behind the Lens” included in Envisioning Dance in Film and Video. Ed. Judy Mitoma. Routledge: New York.
TRANSLATIONS
2016: “Two Message” by John Dower and “My Mother Beate Sirota Gordon” by Nicole Gordon. Christmas in 1945. Asahi Shimbun Publications. Tokyo, Japan
2010: From Trinity to Trinity Station Hill Press: Barrytown, NY.
SELECTED ACADEMIC TEACHING
2016 – present: New York University (New York, NY)
2010 – present: Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
2006 – present: Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
2014: The New School for Liberal Arts Eugene Lang College (New York, NY)
2013–2022: University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2010: University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
TEACHINGS & WORKSHOPS
2021: University of Colorado Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO)
2021: The Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm, Sweden)
2020: Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (Seattle, WA)
2020: Goethe Institute (Beijing, China)
2019: Movement Research (New York, NY)
2018: Earthdance (Plainfield, MA)
2017: Columbia University (New York, NY)
2017: Tanz Farm (Atlanta, GA)
2016: Annex Senkawa Factory (Tokyo, Japan)
2004: Dakini Tanzwerkstatt (Biel, Switzerland)
2004: Tanzhaus Wasserwerk (Zurich, Switzerland)
AWARD & ADVISORY PANELS
2013: Bessies (New York Dance and Performance Award)
2001: Massachusetts Cultural Council
1999 – 2002: National Dance Project, New England Foundation for the Arts
1997 – 2000: UCLA, National Dance/Media Project Leadership
1991: Dancing: New World, New Forms, Channel Thirteen/WNET
1988: National Endowment for the Arts, Dance Presenters
1987 – 1990: New York State Council for the Arts, Dance Panel
1985: National Endowment for the Arts, Dance Video Panel
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2021: UCross Residency (Sheridan, WY)
2020: Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts’ first Virtual Residency
2019: The Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University (Alfred, NY)
2017: Rauschenberg Residency (Captiva, FL)
SELECTED LECTURES
2024: Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University
2023: Asia Society Museum
2023: University of Houston, co-presented by Aurora Picture Show
2020: Inside Out Museum
2019: Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University's Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
2018: Alfred University
2017: Dickinson College
AFFILIATIONS & FELLOWSHIPS
2017 – 2018: Think Tank Fellow, Wesleyan University’s College of the Environment
2016 – present: Board Member, Danspace Project
2004 – present: The Center for Creative Research Founding Fellow
Funded by the Mellon Foundation, CCR promotes campus-wide engagements and interdisciplinary dialogue involving movement artists, Eiko is among CCR’s 11 founding choreographic fellows
1997 – present: Board Member, Dance Sequence, Inc.
1988 – 1991: Board Member, Movement Research
EDUCATION
2020: Colorado College, Honorary PhD
2007: NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study Graduate Program, M.A.
Concentration: Postwar Japanese Literature
Thesis: Atomic Bomb Literature
Finch Fellowship
2001: Empire State University, Metropolitan Center, B.A.
Concentration: Dance
Leach Fellowship
1998: Fordham University, ESL Program
1969 – 1971: Chuo University Tokyo, Law Department, Political Science Major
1969: Municipal Komaba High School of Tokyo, High School Diploma
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
1977 – 1980: Elaine Summer Kinetic Awareness (New York, NY)
1974 – 1976: Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio (Yokohama, Japan)
1973 – 1974: Rotterdam Dance Academy (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
1972 – 1973: Manja Chmiel Dance Studio (Hanover, Germany)
1972: Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio (Yokohama, Japan)
1971 – 1972: Hijikata Dance Studio (Tokyo, Japan)