/sec is a high-speed performance piece which captures the stretched out physical and mental moment when you are about to crash. Combining both dance and live feed video from the performer's view, it allows the audience to experience this moment both from an outside and inside perspective.
Concept / Performance: Yuka Takahashi
Performed at Studio Soto, Boston, 2013
'2x in a Living Room and a Kitchen’ is a site-specific, adapted work that is part dance, part sound, part performance art.
The piece explores the obscurity of functional living space and its accompanying problems of communication. Designed for performance in a ‘tiny’ space, the piece offers the deliberate use of obscure notions of body, with frequent changes in perspective and subject/object roles, in the setting of a normal living space (conceived of as a living room and a kitchen). Through the utilization of a restricted space, movement, visual media, and sound are amplified and condensed to intensify the relationships between the moving and static elements of the work. Sound is used to underscore the drama enacted by the participant dancers. There are many visual props used in the piece.
Concept / Performance: Yuka Takahashi, Sara June
Sound: Max Lord
Performed: Zeroplan 2011, Boston Center for the Arts 2012,
100years #4 exhibition at Boston University- Organized by MoMA PS1 with Performa, 2012
Living Installation
Connectraction was made for a series of >NO COMMENT + < organized by Kazuko Kurosaki. 3 featured artists presented their own works in the display of LABfactory to the public.
The piece explores the connections and tractions in the human society. Free space in the beginning was sectioned by string telephones and became incapable of moving a body.
Concept/ Performance: Yuka Takahashi
Performed at LABfactory Vienna, 2009
GAME is account for an experiment in competitive consciousness.
Physical language and audience interaction expose how competition arises and how this tension invades individuals for arbitrary reasons. Competitive consciousness catalyzed by the audience transforms the space into a battle field.
Concept: Yuka Takahashi
Performance: Yuka Takahashi, Sara June
Sound: Max Lord
Performed: Mobius, 2015
Lighthouse, an installation commissioned by the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and the National Park Service, was designed to bring foot traffic to the NPS Harbor Island Pavilion in the winter months in downtown Boston.
We worked with perennial goodgood collaborators Namita Dharia and Matthew Shanley, and Kawandeep Virdee and Dan Sternof-Beyer of New American Public Art to realize the idea.
Performance: Yuka Takahashi
HATCH switches between installation and performance.
A performance on the constant borderline of privacy and public presence permanently playing with the audience involving the people making them crossing the line between public performer and private spectator several times to finally become a public installation.
HATCH is visualizing the thin line dividing the imagination of privacy and the abstract idea of publicity and freedom by breaking out of the dark. The intimate atmosphere in the end turning the performance space into a video-installation, which has to be triggered by movements of the audience to work and become visible.
Concept/ Performance: Yuka Takahashi
Sound: Andreas Wiesbauer (B.O.S.)
Sponsored by LABfactory (Vienna, Austria)
Performed at LABfactory Vienna, 2009
Presentation Performance & Living Installatio
>Process in-between<
This experimental research project is about presenting a year long working process. The process of finding a way to create a work based on the reflection of cultural background and identity on the meaning of words.
The results of the process were presented few times during 2010 as a Presentation Performances followed by discussion and Living Installations in the cutting edge of the LABfactory displays to public space.
Concept/ Performance:
Yuka Takahashi
Sponsored by LABfactory (Vienna, Austria)
Performed at LABfactory Vienna, 2010
Label M/Faker is an interactive dance/installation performance.
This performance aimed to reveal how accepting "personal labels" manipulates and eventually shapes reality.
What creates one’s identity?
How do words influence it?
Concept: Yuka Takahashi
Performance: Yuka Takahashi, Liz Roncka,
Sound: Max Lord
Performed: at Mobius, Boston, 2011
Photo: Kristophe Diaz, Hans Wendland
Concept: Yuka Takahashi
Performance: Yuka Takahashi, Joe Burgio
Sound: Angela Sawyer
Performed in Cambridge Y Theater, 2014
Who are you?
What are you?
What do you want?
What do you like?
Where do you belong?
Why do you exist?
Where are you from?
Where are you going?
RUN(A)WAY is a dance piece representing the reality of identity in the current society. The piece combines interview films, text and dance to explore the gap between the physical existence and self perception as well as perceptions from the others by setting the performance in a RUNWAY show.
Concept: Yuka Takahashi
Performance: Teresa Czepiel, David Glista, Liz Roncka, Yuka Takahashi
Sound: Jane Wang
Photo: Kristophe Diaz
Walking through life, our actions and beliefs are often judged by other people with their own unique perspectives. How much does the fear of being judged influence our own actions and, on the other hand, how does the way we deal with this fear influence the judgment?
There is an almost physical quality to the vibe given by judging eyes.
Do invisible vibrations in the air change a person's body? Can a body change the signals those invisible vibrations give off?
Yuka Takahashi and Angela Sawyer work in somatic movement, installation & sound respectively, but they both cross back & forth between conceptual composition and improvisation. Their collaboration blends their separate arts in unique ways.
Concept / Performance: Yuka Takahashi, Angela Sawyer
Performed at Boston University 808 Gallery, 2014
Showing of the first comprehensive results ofthe >process in-between<
A performance of the results of an experimental research project in between spaces, identities, cultures and words.
This interdisciplinary performance uses the mixture of dance, installation and film. The piece starts as live stream from the >in-between words< display to the performance space to the main performance place and end with film.
Concept/ Performance: Yuka Takahashi
Sound: Andreas Wiesbauer (B.O.S.)
Sponsored by LABfactory (Vienna, Austria)
Performed at LABfactory Vienna, 2010
Living Space is a unique experimental mixed media performance event produced by Yuka Takahashi and Liz Roncka.
This interdisciplinary performance event features Boston based artists using the media of dance, improvisation, music, film and photography to explore and share the artistic living vibe among everyone in a club theater environment.
Welcome to our Living Space!
Test Kitchen is an experimental performance event by leading Boston based artists from a wide variety of disciplines. The event features the artists' unique recipe of dance, sound, improvisation and dance theater, and will be presented all over in the hidden historical treasure, Cambridge YMCA Theater.
Please come and enjoy tasting our selected performance assortment!
It's time for Test Kitchen!!
Artistic Director/ Producer: Yuka Takahashi
http://yukatakahashi.wix.com/test-kitchen
