Description(English follows) Eiko & Koma 20 Eiko & Koma Sublime and delightfully observant, this poetry collection by renowned American poet Forrest Gander playfully extends the dances of Japanese performance art unit Eiko & Koma.
They are recipients of numerous prizes, including a Mac Arthur Fellowship and a Scripps Award..
The duo has presented dances, video art and installations at venues notably including the Museum of Modern Art (Mo MA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Eiko & Koma ( ) Eiko Koma Mo MA Eiko & Koma Born and raised in Japan, Eiko Otake and Koma Otake have been active in New York since 1976.
Gander, who taught at Harvard and then Brown University, lives near San Francisco, California.
Forrest Gander An award-winning American writer, translator, and editor, Gander is a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist who has translated Pablo Neruda and many Latin American writers, and co-translated Kiwao Nomura and Gozo Yoshimasu.
This book is enhanced with photographs by Anna Lee Campbell and a parallel Japanese translation by Eri Nakagawa and Matthew Chozick.
What emerges is a transfixing, dexterous use of poetic form that transposes a theatre of movement onto the page with delicacy and profundity.
Description(English follows) Eiko & Koma 20 Eiko & Koma Sublime and delightfully observant, this poetry collection by renowned American poet Forrest Gander playfully extends the dances of Japanese performance art unit Eiko & Koma
