This Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11 and 12, Tigertail Productions will present Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project at the Colony Theatre on South Beach, along with a panel discussion, a Delicious Movement Workshop and video installation.

For 40 years, the legendary Japanese-born choreographers and dancers Eiko & Koma have humanized dance through the still harmony of their bodies. Their long-term commitment to each other emerged from postwar Japan, and their work, provocative and still, evokes power and myth. It is characterized by bold, highly theatrical strokes that expose their vulnerability as dancers and invites empathy from the audience.

The dance concert will feature Raven – the centerpiece of Eiko & Koma’s three-year retrospective, a raw, hand-crafted landscape that deals with hunger for nourishment and intimacy. The concert will also include Night Tide and White Dance – revived as part of the Retrospective Project, the first piece that Eiko & Koma performed in America.

Interesting note: Raven, the centerpiece of the project, will be presented using a handcrafted, burned and scorched floor and backdrop. Eiko & Koma will present the actual and/or metaphorical “smell” and “residue” of living and dying. The piece was inspired by their upbringing in postwar Japan.

These concerts are a part of Eiko & Koma’s multifaceted Retrospective Project, which includes visual art installations and video work as well as dance performance. The duo have created a visual art exhibition, Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty, which they will install in a gallery setting. In addition, Eiko & Koma created a series of thematically edited video works that will be shown in conjunction with workshops and panel discussions.

Concert: Friday & Saturday, Feb. 11 & 12, 2011, 8:30 p.m. Post-concert discussion Friday. $30 general admission, $20 senior (65+) and students with I.D. $50 VIP (best seating, priority admission and private reception). Group tickets are available. Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. For tickets call Tigertail at 305-324-4337 or order at www.tigertail.org. Other Events and Components of Eiko & Koma’s Miami Residency Panel Discussion: Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, 7:00-8:30pm, Free, Albion Hotel, 1650 James Avenue at Lincoln Road, Miami Beach – “Influence of Butoh on Art in North and South America,” Panelists: Helena Thevenot, Celeste Delgado and Eiko & Koma Delicious Movement Workshop: Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, Free, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., New World School of the Arts, 25 NE 2nd Street, Studio D on 7th Floor, designed for all people who love to move or who want to love to move with delicious feelings. Video Installation: Jan 31-Feb. 12, 2011, daily, Galleria Del Sol, 1628 North Michigan Avenue (just off Lincoln Road), Miami Beach.