Teiji Ito

Teiji Ito (1935-1982) was a composer and performer born in Tokyo, who moved to the United States with his family at the age of six and lived in New York. He wrote chiefly for theatre, dance and film. He scored films by Maya Deren, including Meshes of the Afternoon and The Very Eye of Night, and he married Deren in 1960. He died during a visit to Haiti in 1982. After Deren's death in 1961 he and his wife Cherel Ito edited the footage she had shot in Haiti into the documentary Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti.