Tomoe Aihara
Two Women (2014) is a female duet Eiko choreographed and performed with Tomoe Aihara from Japan. It is the first experiment that Eiko directed solely. Choreographing a duet for and with another woman was new to Eiko.
Two Japanese women with a 20-year age difference explored how they shared (or not) certain desires and aesthetics. Eiko also examined how her movement vocabulary and the sense of time could be digested (or not) by a different person. Two bodies sometimes mirror each other in part or collide into one. As two Japanese women performing together for the occasion, the focus was on their age difference and the pulling and pushing that occur between generations.
Tomoe Aihara is a dancer and scholar who lives in Tokyo. She has studied with Eiko occasionally over the past 15 years and participated in several Delicious Movement workshops.
NYC Arts: Eiko on Her Own, with Others
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June 16, 2014
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