ABOUT

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Since 1991 Akemi Takeya has been living and working in Vienna. She has collaborated with artists in the fields of dance, theater, film/video, fotography and music. She has created numerous dance, video and performance pieces in collaboration with such artists as Paul V. Weihs, Sam Auinger & Rupert Huber, Sam Auinger, Roberto Paci Daló, Dorfmeister, G.X. Jupitter Larsen, Sergio Messina, Bob Ostertag, Robin Rimbaud aka SCANNER, Jon Rose, Andrea Sodomka, Wolfgang Mitterer, Tom Cora, Werner Puntigam, Christian Fennesz, Tetsuo Furudate, Granular Synthesis ( modell 5 / 1994) , Ong Ken Seng, Benoit Lachambre, Uchihahsi Kazuhisa, Keiko Higuchi, Tanja Tomic, Noid, Rechenzentrum, Zbigniew Karkowski, Metalycée etc….

Own Work

2009. Suspended: performance series for 5 performers in a triangle construction
2008-09. Red Point: an autobiographic work with Tanja Tomic / Strukt (visual design)
2008-09. 31shots: performance with Anna MacRae (perfomer) and a male guest performer
2006. Feeler: solo performance with Bruno Pocheron (light) & Heinz Ditsch (feedback sound)
2006. So what!: one woman show with rechenzentrum (sound & video)
2005. ce_l: voice & body performance with Ulf Langheinrich (audiovisual enviroment)
2004-05. Weathering: body performance with Ulf Langheinrich (audiovisual enviroment)
2003-04. ZZ: collaboration with Ong Ken Seng (artistic supervisor) and Noid (sound design)
2002-03. AJ Project: the Austria X Japan Dance & Performance Exchange Programme; Yokohama (2002), Vienna, Budapest and Prague (2003)
2002. Shadow Pieces: short pieces, solo & duo with Miguel Angel Gasper (perfomer)
2002. Double space: voice & body performance with Noid (cello & electronic)
2002. Multiple space – jail breaker’s dream: voice & body performance with Testuo Furudate (noize music)
2001. Multiple space: voice & body performance with Christian Fennesz (electronic)
2001. Black Honey Drops: dance solo in a visual environment, with Ko Murobushi (artistic supervisor)
2001. Terror by a blind stranger: solo dance performance in a visual environment
2000. Yuragi: dance & music performance in a form of jam session
1999. Drowning Fish: solo dance – Austrian Dance Production Prize 1999
1998. Bodypoems_REFLECTION: 7 short stories with live music
1997. Imeka: the first solo dance project in Europa.