"Hunger of the Land" lasts approximately sixty minutes and is performed without any intermission. "Hunger of the Land was commissioned by the 1991 Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, the 1991 American Dance Festival and the Lied Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Eiko & Koma collaborated with Robert Mirabal in 1991 to create "Land", which they performed worldwide in the subsequent years. In revisiting the concept and commissioned music of "Land" after fifteen years, Eiko and Koma incorporated the theme of hunger from their newest work "Hunger" (2008). For their first appearance in Indonesia, Eiko & Koma wish to offer a program that shows both their lasting motif and their latest concerns, not only we humans are hungry but land is hungry for nourishment and intimacy.
Since 1972, Japanese-born choreographer/dancers Eiko & Koma have collaborated in creating and performing a unique theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light, sound, and time. Neither Eiko (female) nor Koma (male) studied traditional Japanese dance. Eiko and Koma were law and political science students in Japan when, in 1971, they each joined the Tatsumi Hijikata company in Tokyo. Since moving to the US in 1976, Eiko & Koma have presented their works in theaters, universities, museums, galleries, and festivals world-wide including numerous appearances at the American Dance Festival, five seasons at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, and a month-long "living" gallery installation in the Whitney Museum of American Art. Eiko & Koma were named in theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows in 1984 and MacArthur Fellows in 1996. They were awarded the 2004 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for their "lifetime contribution to the field of modern dance." In 2006 Eiko & Koma received the Dance Magazine Award and were honored in the first round of the United States Artists Award.
Beside the dance performances, on Sunday 12 July 2009 at 10:00 a.m., Eiko and Koma will give dance workshop for free (Source: salihara.org).
Date and time:
July 11/8 p.m.
July 12/8 p.m.
Ticket Price:
General IDR 100000
Student IDR 50000
Venue:
Komunitas Salihara
Jl.Salihara No.16 Pasar Minggu
Jakarta Selatan 12520
For further info, please click www.salihara.org
