Eiko Otake
Lives and works in New York.
Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement-based, interdisciplinary artist.
She worked for more than 40 years as Eiko & Koma performing their own choreography, but since 2014, Eiko has been directing her own projects.
In her solo project “A Body in Places”, Eiko has performed numerous site-specific works. “A Body in Fukushima” records Eiko‘s solo performances in post-nuclear disaster Fukushima.
In her “Duet Project”, Eiko has been engaged in an open-ended series of cross-disciplinary experiments with a diverse range of artists, including Wen Hui with whom Eiko is performing in “What Is War”.
A recipient of MacArthur, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award, and Doris Duke Artist Award, Eiko teaches regularly at colleges and in communities.