Koyo (紅葉) – a 5-week workshop series with Reina Takeuchi, Takeshi Matsumoto & Hoyori Maruo as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE
Koyo (紅葉) refers to the red, orange, and yellow leaves that change colour every autumn, and the tradition of appreciating colours during the autumnal season. Appreciating nature and the changing of the seasons has long been a part of Japanese culture, and this class series is themed around the way in which our dance practices shift seasonally too. Led by Japanese dance practitioners who have been working and learning around the world for some time, the Koyo series is an opportunity to dive into movement practice and pay homage to the seasonal changes that are a part of every dancer’s journey.
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WORKSHOP DETAILS
5 June – 3 July 2025
6:15PM-8PM MONDAYS
5 JUNE, 12 JUNE, 19 JUNE, 26 JUNE, 3 JULY
PRICE:
SINGLE CLASS: $25 (+ booking fee)
5-WEEK PASS: $100 (+ booking fee)
SINGLE CLASS LOW-INCOME OPTION: $15 (+ booking fee)
5-WEEK PASS LOW-INCOME OPTION: $75 (+ booking fee)
THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH
1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027
GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL COUNTRY
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Reina Brigette Takeuchi is a Japanese Australian independent dance artist interested in cross-cultural exchange, collaboration, curation and creative facilitation. Her projects have included installations at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and SomoS Arts, Berlin, and performances for Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, Performance Space, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Late program, Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Pier 2/3 and Sydney Dance Company. Her most recent co-directed show Ghosts Between Streams (2024) was awarded highly in two categories at Sydney Fringe Festival – Best in Dance and Music. She’s a co-facilitator of Palette Session Australia, an experimental dance lab, and will be travelling and teaching in Asia and Australia throughout 2025.
Takeshi Matsumoto is a dance artist who specializes in making dance performances for/with children and their families. He is also a qualified dance movement psychotherapist, having experience in working with children with autism and learning disabilities both in the UK and Japan. Growing up in Japan, his practice both in life and performing art is influenced by 和-Wa, harmony, peacefulness, quiet and contentment ways of living and balancing with others and environment. Apart from making shows with Ichi Ni San, Takeshi is dedicated in working with/for refugee and stateless children, LGBTQ+ refugee adults and disabled people in the UK and beyond. He is Artistic Director of Seven Circles (UK), engaging with projects that centre creativity and collectivity; based on The Seventh Generation Principle.
Hoyori Maruo (she/her) is a movement artist based in Sydney, Australia. She graduated in 2020 with a Diploma in Professional Dance and continued her training through Gibney Dance (NYC) under the mentorship of Jessica Smith. Most recently, she performed in Sacha Copland’s ‘An Honest Conversation’ presented in Form Dance Project’s Festival ‘That’s Two, Thank you’. She is also the 2024 recipient of the Obremski/Works Voyager fellowship by Jesse Obremski. Now residing in Australia, Hoyori continues to perform, teach and choreograph.
Photo: Reina Takeuchi, 2023. Photographer: Jack Single.