Miwako Takano

1990: Worked with Chie Murai （performerﾕs shop） and Sadayuki Hayashi （Golgi Worx）.
1994: Went to the U.K., received a Dance Diploma from the Laban Centre, studied mime under Steven Wasson and Corinne Soum （direct heirs of the mime of Etienne Decroux） and returned to Japan.
1998: Started performing fragment （solo series）, white fetish and Yoshiko no Heya （Yoshikoﾕs Room） and other works in small theaters.
2003: Received Honorable Mention at the Yokohama Solo x Duo Competition and was invited to the dance festival at the Centre Choregraphique National de Tours in France. Participated in We're Gonna Go Dancing!! vol. 4 in Osaka and Nagoya in November and in Next Next 4 in December.
2004: Selected for the Yokohama Platform of the Rencontres Choregraphique Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in January. Selected to perform at the Toyota Choreography Award in July and received the Audience Prize. Leader of time and locus.

Through focusing on movement triggered by the impulses and senses of the living body, which are so difficult to grasp with words, and through this figurative form and a dance that freely floats from form to form, Miwako Takano hopes to explore and present a new world.
She usually balances her solo activity with running the group time and locus.

1. Regular performance activity. Performances around Japan and overseas.
2. Performances around Japan and overseas with time and locus.
3. Collaborative activity with other artists, including dancers, musicians and set and costume designers.