Presenting their work for the 17th summer at ADF, Eiko & Koma took a few minutes to speak with CyberDance. Don’t miss their company performances this week, June 28 – 30, at the Reynolds Industries Theater!

Director and Choreographer Martha Clarke is the recipient of the 2010 Scripps/ADF Award and its $50,000 prize. The video is an excerpt of the tribute to Martha presented at her award ceremony.

An excerpt from Eiko & Koma’s Raven. Eiko & Koma will perform Raven, from 2009, Elegy, commissioned by the ADF in 1984, and White Dance, Eiko & Koma’s 1976 American debut, at the Reynolds Industries Theater, June 28 – 30. For more information on this ADF performance, please visit the ADF website.

Eiko & Koma THE RETROSPECTIVE PROJECT: FALL 2009 at Wesleyan from Eiko and Koma on Vimeo.

Join us for a screening of 36 Works by Eiko & Koma on June 30 at 1pm at White Lecture Hall on Duke University’s East Campus. This event is free and open to the public. 36 Works by Eiko & Koma was produced as a part of Eiko & Koma’s exhibition “Time is not Even, Space is not Empty”, which is currently installed at Reynolds Industries Theater, where Eiko & Koma will perform a retrospective of some of the their greatest works June 28-30. 36 Works by Eiko & Koma shows the trajectory of Eiko & Koma’s career through short excerpts of most of their works created between 1976 (the year they arrived in the US) and 2009 (the year they started their Retrospective Project). The video above is a short documentary by Joanna Arnow about Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project.

ADF is exploring the relationship between film and dance during the 15th year of our Dancing for the Camera International Festival of Film and Video Dance. Of special note during the film festival this year is the launch of The International Journal of Screendance. CyberDance spoke with DFC Director Douglas Rosenberg and Claudia Kappenberg of the Screendance Network. The screendance clips accompanying the interview are from Veterans and Let’s Dance, two films awarded Certificates of Distinction this year. Please visit the ADF website for more information on DFC screenings and events.

Since the summer of 2003, local visual artist Carol Weisberg Burgess has been coming to the ADF to paint watercolor sketches of the dancers during technique classes. CyberDance recently spoke with Carol about her process of translating the movement in space to movement on paper. She says, “the dancers put their whole self into what they’re doing, and I just try to catch that.”