A Tokyo-based live artist, choreographer and dancer is holding free workshop sessions in Salford in the coming weeks.
The free to attend workshops will be held at the New Adelphi building at the University of Salford, focuses on ‘presence and perception’.
The session will commence from 10am on November 15, and will be based on live-artist Takuya Takemoto’s own childhood experience.
Takuya who grew up performing in community spaces across Tokyo, solely uses his experience of the mountainous landscape of Gunma Prefecture.
Through movement and breathing exercises, Takuya aims to make participants consider the geographical conditions that affect the perception and physical sensations in a performance.
He will reconstruct the relationship between the environment and the body to transform the viewers’ perception of space.
The event will run from 10am until 4pm, with guests being able to participate in a 3 hour workshop, followed by an hour half performance and Q&A.
Visitors of the workshop will be able to explore different themes with the artist, as a part of the Japan and Britain contemporary theatre exchange.
Takuya attended Musashiro Arts University, where studied art and theatre. In his late 20s the live artist studied with famous actionist Kubikukuri, also known as ‘The Hangman’.
His experiences as an actor and dancer has seen him be able to perform in works such as Theatre der Welt 2023.
And he will aim to use this experience through his 2:30pm performance of ‘See a Porous Stone’, the show is based on the theme of “What does it mean for a person to stand in front of a person in performance?”
Takuya has been performing ‘See a Porous Stone’ since 2017 and performed it daily in Tokyo.
The daily performance will aim to transform the viewer’s perception of space through extremely subtle movements, and experience the unique showing of the relationship between body and environment,.
Guests will be able to have the option of attending both the performance and workshop, with tickets being found here.
As well as that visitors will also be able to see exclusively the performance here.
All events are free of charge, and will hope to be a demonstration of different perceptions of art
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