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Interview with Eiko and Koma

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	reel 2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-2124 [sound cassette] reel 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	reel 1	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-2124 (sound cassette) reel 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2124 (transcript)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 sound cassettes (approx. 170 min.) +

Summary

Cassette 1. Begins on Jan. 6, 1998. Eiko and Koma (Eiko Otake Yamada and Takashi Koma Yamada) describe their families; their education; meeting each other at the studio of Tatsumi Hijikata; studying with Kazuo Ohno; their interest in Mary Wigman; traveling to Europe; studying with Manja Chmiel; performing their own work; performers that they met in Europe, including Pina Bausch, Kurt Jooss and Lucas Hoving; Eiko's ankle injury; returning to Japan; going to New York for the first time and becoming re-inspired in their work. Interview pauses and resumes on Jauary 8, 1998. Eiko and Koma discuss the choices they have made in the subject matter of their work; the role of nature in their work; living in the Catskills for two years.
Cassette 2. Continuation of January 8 interview. Eiko and Koma discuss leaving the Catskills; the relationship of their work to traditional Japanese art forms; their manner of working together and creating; the sources of their material; their collaborations with other artists; working with the Kronos Quartet; performing with their children Yuta and Shin; lighting design in their work; film and video collaborations; their teaching; upcoming projects.

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Note

For transcript, see *MGZMT 3-2124.
Interviewed by Deborah Jowitt on Jan. 6 and 8, 1998 at Eiko and Koma's apartment in New York City.

Access (note)

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2124 (transcript)

OCLC

NYPY98-R34

Title

Interview with Eiko and Koma [sound recording]

Imprint

1998.

Local Note

Preservation master cassette: *MGZTCO 3-2124.

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2124.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2124 nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local Subject

Audiotapes, -- Otake, E.

Audiotapes, -- Otake, T.

Added Author

Otake, Eiko, interviewee.

Otake, Takashi Koma, interviewee.

Jowitt, Deborah, interviewer.

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2124 (transcript)

*MGZTC 3-2124 (sound cassette)