Dancing in at Station

Short excerpt from Eiko's solo performance, A Body in a Station, at Philadelphia 30th Street Amtrak Station Presented by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Eiko performed for three hours each on four Fridays in October 2014, for a total of twelve hours. Camera by Ben Grinberg. Edited by Ben Grinberg and Alexis Moh Still photo with the text by William Johnston. For more videos, please visit eikoandkoma.org/videos

People in the station are going somewhere or waiting to go somewhere. Many are alone. Performing also alone, I want to breathe the vast space of the station and the movement within it. I want to exchange a gaze with every viewer and dance for those who come to see me as well as those who are indifferent. Perhaps I will be a nuisance, unwanted by most of the people in the midst of this magnificence. However, I want to embody odd beauty, the sense of nakedness and feebleness of a human and the solitude of an artist.

- Eiko