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Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer

0.0(0)19851h 47m1

“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in this intimate portrait of creativity and individuality, After seeing a Martha Graham performance in college, Kanda left her family behind in Japan and arrived in New York City, where she studied under the legendary Graham and became a principal dancer with the troupe. Following the wiry artist as she moves from practice floor to performance hall, and from the cramped single-room apartment she lives in to a trip home to see her aging mother, director Sumiko Haneda reveals a woman who has rebelled against traditional ideals of marriage and motherhood, and who nearly single-handedly brought modern dance to Japan-and kept it alive. “When I die,” Kanda tells the director, “I will be content if I can just say, ‘I danced.'”

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Japanese

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  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical29 Jun 1985

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Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer (1985) was directed by Sumiko Haneda.
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Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer runs for 1h 47m.

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