LEMONISM x *JAPONISM | MINIMALISM | SYMBOLISM | ACTIONISM | 2016
“ A rhizomatic performance series goes on”

Akemi Takeya, the japanese perfomer, based in Vienna since 25 years, confronts herself with the duality of her existence between the cultures and counteracts the western gaze on Japanese art. In doing so, she draws on traditional Japanese music and dances, on classical Buyoh and avant-garde Butoh dance. Alike a mirror image she takes over the movements of the 1780 developed Kurokami (“Black Hair”), in which a courtesan mourns after her ex-lover. She copies Tatsumi Hijikata, the inventor of Butoh, the “Dance of the Revolt”. This “Dance of Darkness” from the 1960s/70s rebelled against traditional forms of Japanese dance and theatre and resisted at the same time the import of modern Western dance. In her subjective involvement with the dance heritage and the cultural projections between East and West Takeya scrutinizes identities and gender constructions, always in between Japanese and European culture.

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