The figure in white trembles, her dark hair hanging down her back wildly. Her silhouetted hand raises slowly then catches a ray of light. The figure in red is still, without hands. His shoulder is sharp against the darkness. He listens for any sound and hears the audience coughing.
Every breath is staged for impact, threaded through open mouths turned upwards.
When Nights Were Dark, the latest production of their unique performance style, a 120 minute exploration of humanity's cyclical nature. The set glows from within and comes forward slowly. Eiko emerges into the dappled light that glows through the amorphous hanging ceiling. Their flickering movement is at once natural and strained, old and young. As Eiko and Koma move through their performance, the set also moves, extending itself out to the audience, and completing a 360-degree revolution in an hour.