A Body with Fukushima

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Video ID number: V00515
Recording date: 2021

Overview

Since 2014, Eiko Otake has visited Fukushima several times with historian and photographer William Johnston, performing without an audience and recording them on camera. This is a 25 minute edit of a performance that Otake did while projecting a one hour video compilation of photographs taken over five trips to Fukushima onto the walls of a theatre. The present, past and landscape of post-earthquake Fukushima are presented through her body.

Projection: 'A Body in Fukushima' (Photography: William Johnston / Editing: Eiko Otake / Music: David Harrington Kronos Quartet)

-Created as a video piece. The venue indicates where it was filmed, while the performance period refers to the dates the work was available for online viewing, from its release date until the conclusion of the Tokyo Real Underground festival (1 April - 15 August 2021).
-Eiko Otake Project - A Body in Places
-Tokyo Real Underground (Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13)

Details

Title: A Body with Fukushima
Performance creator(s): NPO Dance Archive Network
Direction/Choreography: Eiko Otake
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre : Theatre East
Performance date(s): 24 April 2021 - 15 August 2021 (online viewing)
Performer(s) and staff: Performer: Eiko Otake
Stage Manager: Takashi Kawachi
Lighting Designer: Noriyuki Mori (balance,inc.DESIGN/LIGHTING)
Sound Designer: Noriaki Coda
Film Production: LAND FES
Publicity Design: Young Soul
Photography: Tatsuhiko Nakagawa
Organiser(s): Organisers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Planning and Production: NPO Dance Archive Network
Genre: Performance