Eiko Otake – Danspace Project

Eiko Otake

Tilting the Mirror by Nora Raine Thompson

Eiko and Joan onstage. Joan stands in a white dress reading from a book with a microphone while Eiko sits in a chair, leaning forward, also speaking into a microphone. A wooden mallard sits between them with other set elements and props scattered around them. Behind them is a large projection of a tilted mirror, reflecting a tree in the woods.

In this essay, Nora Raine Thompson reflects on her experience witnessing Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake’s unique and historic collaborative performance and installation, Drawing in Circles WHY (an experiment), presented at the Castelli Gallery in partnership with Danspace Project. This… Read more

Platform 2021 Schedule

  Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience (May 15 – June 18, 2021), curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor, is a digital Platform featuring acclaimed artists and past Platform curators, each with longstanding relationships to Danspace Project: Ishmael Houston-Jones, Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake with Joan Jonas,… Read more

More Weirdness, More Joy: Performance Curation and Pedagogy at Danspace Project and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (excerpt)

The following excerpt is from a chapter by Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project Executive Director and Chief Curator, to be included in a forthcoming anthology Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, Envisioning Theory and Practice in Performance (working title) edited by Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique… Read more

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