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Sachiyo Takahashi
Grew up in circumstances where Occidental music and Japanese traditional music fused into both ears. Studied “culture and representation” at the Tokyo University where main research was the body and voice in Japanese traditional arts and contemporary performance art. In parallel, learned Nô-kan from Master Yukimasa Isso and deeply influenced by Japanese traditional performing arts, especially from Nô, Bunraku and Shinnai. After three years work as an assistant of the Tokyo University, moved to Europe with a Belgian scholarship and learned theater direction from Jan Fabre. Also, as a performer, performed in three of his pieces and toured in many European cities. From 1999, learned electro acoustic composition from Prof. Annette Vande Gorne at the Conservatoire of Mons and received premiere prix with distinction for the piece ”ParaDice” in 2001. From 1999 named herself “SAC-sound action creator” and started sound-action creation aiming for the essential unity of choreography and sound in performance. A member of art association “UFAC” in Antwerp. Collaborates extensively with artists from different disciplines.

CREATIONS

ParaDice (2001)
Electro acoustic composition
première prix avec distinction at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Mons
?CD available
PlesioPhone (2001)
Interactive art using cell phone
Collaboration with Sidney Fels
?demo video available
Aviation/Abbreviation2001 (2001)
Sound-action performance
Contemporary romance told through the episode of airplane and flight
Concept, sound, text and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Ugo Dehaes and Chloé Dujardin
tour: Turhout, Hasselt, Brussels, Koksijde and Amsterdam
Aviation/Abbreviation (1999)
Sound-action performance
Concept, sound, text and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Martin Nachbar and Fabian Schnedler
premiere in Monty, Antwerp
?demo video available
Forklift Ballet “The Last Embodiment (1999)
Choreography for forklifts: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Sidney Fels and Alzek Misheff
Acqui Terme, Italy
?demo video available
Sound of Story---A bed of gravity (1999)
Interactive sound-action drama system using electronic sensor mattresses
Concept, sound and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Joel Conde
BA Sonic Arts, Middlesex University, London
Aviation/Abbreviation (side A) (1999)
Dance installation
Concept, sound, text and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Martin Nachbar
Festival Beweeging 3, C.C. Berchem, Antwerp
Imaginary Constellations (1996)
Dance performance at planetarium
Concept, choreography and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Takahiko Suzuki
Hokutopia, Tokyo
ARIANE DANS L’ATELIER (ESQUISSE)(1995)
Performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Aki Kuroda and Yasuo Kobayashi
atelier of Aki Kobayashi , Paris
Vendredi ou l’île flottante de mes nuits (1995)
Concept and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Collaboration with Keïko Courdy and Rikichi Takikawa
Rinsenji Temple, Tokyo
LE CITTÀ INVISIBILI (1994)
Performance piece for sound and movement
Concept and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
As a performance unit “ec?to”
Session House, Tokyo
(1993)
Dance performance in open space
Concept and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
As a performance unit “ec?to”
The Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo
(1993)
Dance performance in a club house
Concept, choreography and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
as a performance unit “ec?to”
MC1000, Tokyo
SCAPE-COLLECTING (1991)
Video event
Concept and video: Sachiyo Takahashi
Tokyo
fleeting routine (1988)
Experimental music theater
Concept and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
Kid-ai-rak Hall, Tokyo

WORK IN PROGRESS

Orpheus in the Dark (2001-)
Multi media participatory performance project with live music, live video and dance. New interpretation of Orpheus’s myth at the age of media and technology.
Production: vzw UFAC (Antwerp)
Waking Dream (2000-)
Performance with infrared image/darkness, and sound/silence
Collaboration with Sidney Fels and Baerbel Neubauer

PERFORMANCE IN:

Goeffrey Chaucer’s first date (2000)
Choreograph: Palle Dyrvall
Sound and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
C.C. Jacques Franck, Brussels
Performance (2000)
Choreograph: Marc Vanrunxt
Performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
De Beweeging, Antwerp
Universal Copyrights 1&9 (1998)
Direction: Jan Fabre
Play: Sachiyo Takahashi
Cultural Center Belem, Lisbon
Glowing Icons (1997/98)
Direction: Jan Fabre
Play : Sachiyo Takahashi
Tour in Antwerp, Brussels, Rotterdam, Berlin, Paris, Hanover, Lisbon, Porto
Body, body on the wall…(1997-01)
Direction: Jan Fabre
Performance: Wim Vandekeybus
Assistant on Stage: Sachiyo Takahashi
TOUR in Brussels, Antwerp, Leuven, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Berlin, Amsterdam, Wien, Tallinn, Leubljana, Montpellier, Stockholm and currently on tour.
hyper sync (1995)
Interactive sound work of Akitsugu Maebayashi
Text and performance: Sachiyo Takahashi
P3 art and environment, Tokyo
?info---http://www2.gol.com/users/mae884

EDUCATION

Premiere prix with distinction in electro acoustic (2001): Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Mons
Free researcher at the U.I.A. (1996-1998): Theater science, with a scholarship from Flemish Community (96-97)
Ph. D candidate (1993): voluntarily left of absence
M.A. (1992): Culture and Representation, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
B.A. (1990): Culture and Representation, The University of Tokyo, College of Liberal Arts

EMPLOYMENT

Temporary lecturer at the Shukutoku University, Tokyo (1996): Contemporary culture and semiology
Research assistant of the University of Tokyo (1993-1996): Culture and Representation
Teaching Assistant of the University of Tokyo (1995-1996): Culture and Representation

PUBLICATIONS

?Chapters in books
What’s Nô?
A book on art of Nô theater
Together with Shinpei Matsuoka, Reiko Yamanaka, etc.
p198-205, p210-216, p221, p232, p237
Shinsyokan, 2000
?articles
Hearing the sound of cigarette/has the happening happened? ---an encounter with Jan Fabre “Universal Copyrights 1&9”
Accepted for book chapter publication: ‘How to read theater work ’, Tokyo Univ. Press, 2001 (in press)
From the laboratory of Jan Fabre--- a report on the creation process of theater work ‘Glowing Icons’
The book series of ‘ The Discourse of Représentation’ vol.6, Tokyo Univ. Press, 2000, p123-p142
Stars and Spirals---43 Memoranda on the Production of Dance Performance ‘ Imaginary Constellations ’---
The Journal of the Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies vol.1, 1996, p115-126
Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
L’espace du mai dans le Nô Kagetsu---La rotation du corps et son arrêt---
The Journal of the Department of Liberal Arts vol.26, 1993, p25-44
Department of Liberal Arts, The Collage of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
-thesis
A Study of
and in Performance---Bunraku and Performance in the 20th Century---
Master’s thesis for Tokyo Univ. 1992
?translations
*Jan Fabre “Een doodnormale vrouw”, publication by The Executive Committee of the exhibition ‘ RIPPLE ACROSS THE WATER ’, 1995
?program text
*The Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation Symposium, ‘Jan Fabre, conductor of coincidence’, Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation, 1997

WORKSHOP/SYMPOSIUM

Zeami International Symposium
Paneller at the Workshop: “ Nô music, voice, resonance and MA”, July 2001
Yoyogi Olympic Center, Tokyo
Art Camp in Tsugawa
Workshop on body movement: “Stroll of Body”, JULY2001, Tsugawa city, Japan






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