Rosemary Candelario
Eiko & Koma: Choreographing Spaces Apart in Asian America
12pm Kaufman room 160
Choreography inherently theorizes a relationship between bodies and space. My research pushes beyond the reach of the dancing body to the idea that choreography may serve as a nexus of the politics of place and space, constructing a multiplicity of inter-relationships among bodies, sites, and technologies. In my dissertation on the Japanese American dancers, Eiko & Koma, I argue that the pair's choreography does exactly this, effecting as a result new spaces- which I term spaces apart- where alternatives may be performed. Rehearsing my dissertation's main arguments, I will describe the qualities and mechanisms of these spaces apart, each of which evinces a particular choreographic process while concentrating a series of recurring questions asked by Eiko & Koma's body of work. I will demonstrate how the choreographers have for the past forty years generated spaces apart that rework mourning, perform reparation, interrupt nature/culture binaries, and forge intercultural alliances.
Rosemary Candelario is a PhD Candidate in Culture and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is completing her dissertation on the US-based Japanese dancers, Eiko & Koma. Rosemary earned an MA in Culture and Performance from UCLA in 2007, and a BA in Anthropology and German Language and Literature from Boston University in 1992. Areas of specialization include the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form butoh, and the Indian classical dance, Bharatanatyam, with research interests in the globalization of these movement forms, and on dance in diaspora, intercultural collaboration, site-specific performance, arts activism, and ideas of place and space. Rosemary published the article "A Manifesto for Moving: Eiko & Koma's Delicious Movement Workshops" in the Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training in 2010. She is also active as a dancer and choreographer.
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