BIOGRAPHY

Yuka Takahashi is an art and performance synthesist originally from Japan, currently living in Columbus, Ohio. Since she started her professional dance career in NYC in 1999, she has been working with various dance companies and performance projects, and toured across US, EU and Japan while changing her base location among NYC, Vienna (AT) and Boston.

She strongly engaged in the field of dance, performance art, and interdisciplinary/experimental performance scene and her original works and performances were presented internationally in such venues as “100 Years version #4” organized by MoMA PS1 in collaboration with Performa, Judson Church, Boston University, Oberon Theater, Boston Center for the Arts(US), Siggraph (JP), Wuk (AT), Grunthaler9 (GE) among others. She also received artistic residency at LABfatory (AT), and Workspcae Brüssel (BE). In 2014, she was invited to become a member of Boston’s leading performance artist collective Mobius where she produced her work regularly for 2 years. Since 2012, she has produced and curated several interdisciplinary experimental performance events.

Yuka Takahashi’s works are strongly based in conceptual and experimental practice and movement invention. She is actively employing various media such as somatic performance, video work, sound composition, installation into her works. She often utilizes audience participation to add another unexpected surprising dimension to the performance. This interdisciplinary approach allows her to translate the layers of underlying conditions of fluctuating human psychological state and ambiguous social and political configuration into a physical performance.