Media Work (2015-)

Since the early 1980s, Eiko Otake, as Eiko & Koma, produced dances for camera and took initiative in editing and collaborating with various cinematographers and video artists. She edited all of the archival footage for Eiko & Koma's Retrospective Project exhibitions.

Since 2014, when she started her solo project, Eiko has also created numerous media works. She has had several video exhibitions, installations with large-scale projections indoor and outdoor, and has incorporated media work into her performance. Her films A Body in Tokyo, A Body in Fukushima, and No Rule Is Our Rule have been screened at film festivals internationally, including MoMA's Doc Fortnight Film Festival, and have received several awards. In 2023, she presented two installations and two installation-related performance works in New York—Mother at the Historic Chapel in the Green-Wood Cemetery and Drawing in Circles with Joan Jonas at the Castelli Gallery.

“I wish to create works only a performer can make.” — Eiko Otake

“Eiko & Koma's media dances consistently immerse the bodies of the performers and viewers in the various sites of the work. Camera and screen are not only tools that make these body-site relationships possible, but are participants in the immersive processes…This sense of the screen offering an invitation into a world while at the same time not limiting the viewer's experience of the world to what can be seen is Eiko & Koma's major contribution to media dance.” —Rosemary Candelario, Bodies, Camera, Screen: Eiko & Koma's Immersive Media Dances