¡°Move to rest, sleep, and dream. Move to pass time, bloom, and linger.¡± These are the opening lines of Eiko Otake¡¯s ¡°Delicious Movement Manifesto.¡± Otake is a multi-award winning, New York-based Asian-American performance artist whose passion for dance began almost 50 years ago at the height of the Tokyo student uprisings in 1968.
The manifesto¡¯s sense of playful freedom, evoked through a clash between action and stillness as integral parts of movement, appears to be a leitmotif in Otake¡¯s life and work as a dancer and choreographer.
Born in post-war Tokyo, under American occupation, her father¡¯s job as a banker required the family to frequently move houses. In total, Otake changed school six times during her elementary education.
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