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May
7
6:00 PM18:00
Teaching

Heritage Museum of Asian Art: Who Do We Carry?

Who Do We Carry?

Asian Improv aRts Midwest 

May 7, 6 - 8 p.m.  | 4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago

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Eiko will lead a special workshop and conversation with participants. How do we carry memories of different lands, upbringings, and voices? Our bodies are both ancient and contemporary, and in that, how do we meet others and how do we carry others with us? In this workshop, participants will explore talking bodies and listening bodies. How do we carry different voices within us from our families and other lives and influences? How do we move and converse with others, with and without words? How can we create a sustainable culture of sustainable peace? No previous movement or art-making experience necessary. Come with an open mind and willingness to share generously with others.

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May
9
2:30 PM14:30
Teaching

Heritage Museum of Asian Art: Delicious Movement Workshop

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Delicious Movement Workshop

Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio 

May 9, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. | 78 E. Washington St., 1st Floor North

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Delicious Movement Workshop is NOT a dance class but a movement class that is designed for all people who love to move or who want to learn to move with delicious feelings. The workshop is emphatically noncompetitive and appropriate to all levels of ability. Starting with slow floor work, Eiko will lead the participants through moving with images, memories, articulation, but also with personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body. For many people, seeing movement intimately and being seen moving can be a transformative experience. Through the workshop, Eiko will share her principle thoughts: “Time is Not Even; Space is Not Empty,” “Metaphorical Nakedness,” and “Body-based Democracy.” Free and open to the public.

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Jun
9
to Jun 11
Teaching, Presentation

Institute for Creative Teaching 2026

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The 2026 Institute for Creative Teaching (ICT) is intended to provide a place of safety, kindness, and acceptance for us all to take time to replenish, to allow the influx of healing new ideas, and to experience the power that comes from making and being listened to. You’ll be joined by keynote speakers Danielle SeeWalker and Eiko Otake, alongside other teaching artists and practitioners who will lead you through this restorative hands-on experience. 

ICT 2026 will take place June 9th to 11th, 2026 at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). This program is open to educators of all subject areas and grade levels. Participants will earn up to 21 hours toward educator re-licensure and will have the option of registering for 1 continuing education graduate credit from UNC for a small additional fee.

Keynote: In this keynote, Eiko Otake will present why, what, and how she teaches her interdisciplinary college course "Delicious Movement: Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty." A working artist, first-generation immigrant, and a cultural activist, Otake has developed creative teaching tools that she hopes the conference participants can adopt and use. Her students read, draw, discuss, write, move, perform, create, and work on their own projects, thus contributing to her syllabus and their own "one-of-a-kind" experience. Her presentation will include videos of her work as a performing artist and as a classroom teacher. She will also show examples of her students' final projects.

Workshop: Designed to compliment her keynote speech presentation, this workshop is grounded in her concept of a “body-based democracy.” Empathetically non-competitive, you do not need any previous dance or physical training to join this workshop. Participants only need to be willing to experiment, be with others, and converse with or without words.  Seeing movement of others and being seen moving can be a transformative experience that brings a new appreciation of our humanity, and of the time and space we occupy. 

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Feb
14
9:30 AM09:30
Teaching

University of Rochester: Delicious Movement Workshop

Spurrier Hall, Dance Studio
Spurrier Hall Rochester, NY 14611

Free Event

Led by Eiko Otake, Delicious Movement Workshops are designed for all people who love to move or who want to love to move with delicious feelings. You don't have to be a dancer to enjoy the experience. These workshops are emphatically noncompetitive and appropriate to all levels of training and ability. 

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Eiko will also perform A Body, Land, and War  on Friday Feb 13 beginning at 7:30 PM in Spurrier Dance Theater. This new performance combines dance, video projection, and storytelling, and will feature two of her pieces: A Body in Fukushima and What Is War. Click here to learn more and purchase tickets. 

Made possible with the generous support of the Schwartz Performing Arts Fund of the Institute for the Performing Arts, the University Committee for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Central New York Humanities Corridor, the Humanities Project, Film and Media Studies, the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Culture.

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Dec
6
to Dec 7
Teaching

Movement Research: Delicious Movement Workshop: Time Is Not Even Space Is Not Empty

Delicious Movement Workshop: Time Is Not Even Space Is Not Empty

You don’t have to be a dancer to enjoy this emphatically noncompetitive workshop. Everybody is welcome and encouraged to acquire personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body.

The exercises employ images, body articulation, floor work, and large slow movement. For many participants, seeing movement intimately and being seen moving are a transformative experience, which brings a new appreciation of how “time is not even and space is not empty.” We will also have rich dialogues with and without words.

Please wear layers and comfortable clothes.

For workshop-related questions, please email programs@movementresearch.org.

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Jul
9
3:00 PM15:00
Teaching

GALLIM: SITE 1: Site-Specific Processes

During this comprehensive, 5-day intensive, dive into the present and past of site-work, research your own site-specific practice, engage with fellow creatives through workshops, lectures and individual site exploration with artists across the country.

Participants will gain new perspectives on the history of site-work in America, creating movement in conversation with the ideas, history and the people that make a site, researching and contextualizing place, shaping space, and documenting site-work. Through movement workshops, guided work sessions, guest talks and collaborative review, students will create their own site-specific studies each day and build the skills to confidently incorporate site-work into their new or existing artistic practice.

This week will be held remotely via zoom and welcomes participants from around the world. All site-work will be explored on Zoom in individual locations!

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