Film Screening + Movement Lab With Wen Hui & Eiko Otake

In January 2020, New York-based interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake traveled to Beijing to visit Wen Hui, a Chinese choreographer and filmmaker. Though born eight years apart, their lives were shaped by distinct histories—Eiko in postwar Japan, Wen during the Cultural Revolution. Their month-long visit became a space for deep conversation, reflection, and artistic collaboration; eventually, to the documentary No Rule is Our Rule (2022). Marking another year of collaborating together, Eiko and Wen Hui come to USC and invite the community to join their journey through a full-day interdisciplinary workshop, featuring a guided movement session and a documentary screening followed by a disucssion with the artists. Together, they ask: What does it mean to forget, to remember, to mourn, or to pray? How do we move through violence and loss? What shifts when we become movers, dancers, witnesses of our own bodies? This is not a traditional dance class, nor is it intended only for performers. The movement lab invites participants of all backgrounds to explore movement as a way of knowing—a method for accessing human experience, processing emotion, and engaging with space, memory, and creativity. More Info below.