PERFORMANCE SERIES with TAKE Dance
Jun 8, 2015 - Jun 12, 2015; Mon - Fri

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Peridance is proud to offer a New Performance Workshop Series!

From Monday June 8th to Friday June 12th, dancers registered for this workshop will be given the opportunity to learn repertory work from renowned choreographers. The workshop culminates in a fully-produced performance in our Salvatore Capezio Theater on Sunday June 14th at 7:00PM. Tech will be Sunday June 14th from 8:00AM-12:00PM. Exact time will be announced once the workshop begins. Students are expected to attend the full workshop, tech and performance. No Drop-Ins will be permitted.

About the Choreographer

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Takehiro “Take” Ueyama moved to the United States in 1991 to study dance at the Juilliard School in New York City. Upon graduation, he was invited to join the Paul Taylor Dance Company, touring the world with them for 8 years.

In 2003 Ueyama debuted his first choreographic work, Tsubasa, performed with fellow Taylor dancers at the McKenna Theatre at SUNY New Paltz, NY, and in 2005 founded TAKE Dance. He has performed repeatedly as a guest artist with with Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theatre. His television and film credits include PBS’s Dance in America series (with the Taylor Company), Acts of Ardor, and Dancemaker, a film by dancer/choreographer Matthew Diamond.

Having been a baseball player in Japan before fully committing to dance, Ueyama’s work blends both eastern and western sensibilities. Containing both powerful athleticism, as well as traces of his Japanese heritage by employing delicate gestures, his repertoire has been inspired by the beauty in nature, the duality of darkness and light in the universal human condition and the humanity and compassion in day-to-day living. These elements, combined with his various partnerships and collaborations with artists of other genres, lend diversity to movement, music and subject matter. Described as both sensitive and exciting, Ueyama’s choreography ensures a place for the heart on any stage it appears, a feast for the eyes, mind and soul; it is uniquely, “TAKE”.

In 2005 Ueyama’s ‘s work, Sakura Sakura was a prizewinner at the International Modern Dance Choreographic Competition in Spain, and he was one of four choreographers selected for 2006 Free to Rep at FSU’s Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. In 2010 he was the first choreographer to win the S & R Foundation’s prestigious Washington Award.

Ueyama has created and re-staged works for The Alvin Ailey School, Tallahassee Ballet, The New School, The Juilliard New Dances, Purchase College, Princeton University, Vassar College, Marymount Manhattan College, Randolph College, The Hartt School, Adelphi University, Roger Williams University, Grand Valley State University, Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School, the International Summer Dance in Burgos, Spain and ArcDanz in Mexico and Circo Fantazztico in Cost Rica.

About THERE AND HERE

"THERE AND HERE is a work that explores the process of life and the nature of the afterlife. The body integrates through time with the landscape in a barely perceivable alteration. Through this transition toward the life after life, this metamorphic shifting, the body and the spirit remain as elements of the universe.

As we age, space and time change. The meaning behind our approach shifts as we live and our actions/reactions reflect our life histories. Memory is stored in the body, thus our body becomes our memories. Over time, we rely on this memory settled in our bodies. Life’s beauty becomes the memory chiseled in the body. As living organisms connected to the ever- evolving universe, we are integrated as a part of the natural environment. We are but stones, whose movements cause the ripple in the water."

Workshop Fees
Full Workshop: $115