Miho Takayasu Actress-HMP Theater Company Performer / director – takayasu kagura Traditional ritual dancer-MIKO HMP Theater Conpany HP My Youyube My HP: http://www.miho.takayasu.com Hair : Black, Eyes : Black, Height : 1.49 m, Weight : 41 kg SKILLS Kagura Dance Techniques (Kagura is a Shinto shrine dance, which is a typical form of the old, traditional Japanese dance), Jacques Lecoq Methods (Physical Theater), Pantomimic Techniques, Modern Dance Techniques, Contemporary Dance Techniques, Improvisation Techniques (Movement and Play), Alexander Techniques EDUCATION 1987 Ceremonial dance (KAGURA) in Shinto shrines, Osaka. 1997-2001：Performing arts, drama and dance in Kinki University, Osaka. GRANT Theater Treffen Berlin, Internationales Forum 2011, Workshop: Performance, Berlin CAREER Since 1987, MIKO (KAGURA Dancer), Shinto shrines in Osaka Since 2001, Actress, HMP Theater Company in Osaka Since2012,started the research of Kagura. Perfoemer/director, takayasu kagura 2014 summer, Guest professor, Theater Studies, Giessen University 2015,senior fellow of the “Modernization of traditional art" Kagura Project, conducted as part of “Osaka University Arts Festival: Memory, Democracy, and Identity”. ARTISTIC CAREER 2014 ：November_Actress in Roland Schimmelpfennig’s ” Die arabische Nacht”, (directed by Tomonori Kasai, co-production by Goethe-Instiut Osaka) ,Osaka ：October_KAGURA performance (takayasu kagura) in KYOTO EXPERIMENT Festival /Tomoki Yamauchi Temporary Sustained Landscape in Kyoto. ：August_Actress in Miyu Higuchi’s “If you are happy and … “, Osaka ：July _KAGURA Project in Uni Giessen /Theater Studies, Germany. KAGURA WS in Uni Hamburg / Performance Studies, Uni Dusseldorf / Modern Japan Institute, Germany ：May _KAGURA experimental performance “SAIREI” (directed by Miyu Higuchi) ,Shimane 2013 ：March_Actress in “HOME – March-” ( directed by Tomonori Kasai, inspired by 11.3.2011 ) ,Osaka ：March_KAGURA performance (takayasu kagura), Martin E. Segal Theater Center, NY ：March _KAGURA experimental performance “SAIREI” (directed by Miyu Higuchi) ,Osaka ：April_Actress in Roland Schimmelpfennig’s ” Die arabische Nacht”, (directed by Tomonori Kasai, co-production by Goethe-Instiut Osaka) ,Osaka 2012 ：March _Actress in “HOME” ( directed by Tomonori Kasai, inspired by 11.3.2011) , Osaka ：April-July _KAGURA performance.”takayasu kagura”, HAU3, Ruhr University Bochum,International Research Center “Interweaving Cultures in Performance” Freie University Berlin in Germany, International Theater Festival KONTAKT in Poland, Le Guadalupe in Italien ：August _Co-directer in Schogo Ota’s “SARACHI” , Osaka ：October _Actress in Martin Crimp’s ” Atemmpts on her life”, (directed by Tomonori Kasai), Osaka, Sendai and Tokyo 2011 ：Febrary _Actress in John Cage’s „Theater Piece“ (directed by Enrico Stolzenburg, by the group Brecht Keller), Theater Magdeburg, Germany ：May _Participant at the talent platform, Internationales Forum, at Theatertreffen Berlin ：October _Actress in Dea Leuer’s „Das Letzte Feuer“ (directed by Tomonori Kasai), Osaka,Sendai and Tokyo 2010－2001 ：Goethe’s “Faust” , Osaka , Brecht’s “The Measure”, Osaka. Heiner Müller’s “Hamlet Machine”, Osaka, Kanazawa , ”Media Material”, Tokyo. “Cage” (= free adaptation of Kafka’s “The Trial” ), Osaka, Tokyo “Traveler” (= free adaptation of Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”), Osaka, Tokyo and Indonesia. “Rio” (based on three plants Kishida's Rio,), Osaka, Tokyo. “Dust” (inspired by Wajda’s “Ashes and Diamonds”), Kyoto, Thomas More’s “Utopia”, Osaka. “Politics! Politics! Politics! and politicalanimal! “(Based on three plants Kishida Rio), Osaka, Sendai and Tokyo. Brecht’s “An exception and a principle”, by the group Brecht Keller, Osaka, Korea. ”Keaton” by the group Ishinha, Osaka
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