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EIKO & KOMA

Tree Song

Tuesday, JULY 18 • 8:30 pm

Baker Library Lawn
Rain or shine • Free admission

Post-performance discussion with Eiko & Koma, Wren Room, Sanborn Library

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Trees have long been symbols of resilience, rebirth and portals through which spirits pass. Japanese-born, New York-based movement masters Eiko & Koma return to Dartmouth to perform an outdoor living installation honoring the iconography of trees—and the primal mysteries of landscape and the human body. Winners of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for their dance-theater pieces, they've created another intensely poetic, ritualistic work. As the sun goes down, the barely perceptible motion of the two figures begins; as the sky darkens, they are bathed in mystical lighting. With the immediacy of theater and the hypnotic serenity of a meditation, Eiko & Koma dramatize the continuum of time and nature.

This program is supported in part by the Dartmouth Summer Arts Initiative.