Reina Takeuchi | artist, dance maker, curator
Lives and works across Gubbi Gubbi country, and Gadigal & Bidjigal Land
E: rein.takeuchi[@]gmail.com // reina.takeuchi[@]4a.com.au
Academic Qualifications
2022
[CP]3 certificate distance-learning programme with Dance Nucleus (Singapore) for the development of critical praxes in contemporary choreography and performance making, with a focus on the Asian context. Supported by Critical Path & Readymade Studios.
2021
Commencement of PhD in Creative Practice, Queensland University of Technology
2019 – 2020
Master of Philosophy in Creative Practice
Queensland University of Technology
2019
Advanced Diploma in Elite Performance (Dance)
Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year
2016 – 2018
QUT Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual/Studio Arts & Dance (Distinction)
Professional Profile
2021 – present
Curatorial Program Producer
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2021
Performance / Co-choreographer
Holding Lightness, as part of MCA Late at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2020 – 2021
Choreographer / dance artist
MASKED with FORM Dance Projects, choreographer Meryl Tankard, composer Elena Kats-Cherin and visual artist Régis Lansac
2020 – present
Co-founding member, ANTHEM ARI
2019 – 2020
Assistant Curator
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2019 – 2020
Written publications
Ausdance QLD, Delving into Dance, 4A Papers
2017 – 2020
Creative Industries Ambassador, sessional tutor and facilitator
Widening Participation, Queensland University of Technology
Publications
Reina Takeuchi, 2021, Not Your Miss or Madame: A Three-Act Meditation on Love, Opera and Friendship, November 10
https://goingdownswinging.org.au/archives/not-your-miss-or-madame-a-three-act-meditation -on-love-opera-and-friendship/
Reina Takeuchi, 2020, Dancing Hiatus, 4A Papers, November 20 https://4a.com.au/articles/dancing-hiatus-reina-takeuchi
Reina Takeuchi, Teik-Kim Pok (ed), 2020, BODIES OF ART // RELICS OF SMALL UNIVERSES, Delving into Dance, January 25, https://www.delvingintodance.com/dwords/bodies-of-art-relics-of-small-universe
Reina Takeuchi, 2019, Meditations on Coalescing Visual Arts and Performance Practices, IN/FORM Ausdance QLD, November 5, IN/FORM - Issue #2 by Ausdance QLD - Issuu
Exhibitions / creative works / presentations
Concrete plastic clay, 2019, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sharp Short Dance 2019 - FORM Dance Projects
Crest: QUT Visual Arts: Honours Graduate Exhibition, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2018, https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/id/eprint/4978
Dilate, Ars Electronica, Austria, 2018, https://www.projectdilate.com/
Holding Patterns: Sofiyah Ruqayah, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, 2020, Holding Patterns: Sofiyah Ruqayah | 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Holding Patterns: Shireen Taweel, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, 2020, Holding Patterns: Shireen Taweel | 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Jill Sykes, 12 December 2019, “Large-scale works combine unexpectedly”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Large-scale works combine unexpectedly (smh.com.au)
Klangschlange: Soundline, Ars Electronica, Austria, 2018, Festival-Archiv – Ars Electronica Festival
Opal Russell & Reina Takeuchi, 6 December 2019, “Disparate worlds colliding in PPY19 Revealed”, Sydney Dance Company, Disparate worlds colliding in <i>PPY19 Revealed<i> - Sydney Dance Company
Tracey Clement, 9 September 2020, “Patterns of Adaptation”, Art Guide, Patterns of Adaptation — Art Guide Australia
Transience, Horizon Festival, Sunshine Coast, 2020, HOMEGROWN - Horizon Festival | Sunshine Coast
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Winner of The Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Non-Fiction
2022 Residency at Articulate project space
2021-2022 Critical Path in-space residencies throughout the two years
2019 Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize
2019 Sponsored placement with Stalker Theatre
2018 Eyeline Prize for an Outstanding Visual Arts Graduate
2018 Ars Electronica Future Lab Academy collaborator
2017 - 2018 QUT Creative Industries Faculty Academic Board Representative
2018 Dancenorth Artist Residency in the Tropics (A.R.T.)
2018 Secondment with Expressions Dance Company
2018 Secondment with Dancenorth
2017 Secondment with Australian Dance Theatre
EXHIBITIONS
2022 RE- (group exhibition with artists from Europe and Australia, curated by Nicole Beck), presented at SomoS Arts
2021 OLD HAUNTS (co-curated group exhibition with ANTHEM ARI, Metro Arts Brisbane)
2021 Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus (curatorial project, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney)
2021 RATIONAL IDENTITY (co-curated group exhibition with ANTHEM ARI, THE WALLS ART SPACE)
2021 Truc Truong: hai con lân việt kiều (curatorial project, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney)
2020 Holding Patterns (curatorial project, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney)
2018 Crest: QUT Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) Graduate Exhibition (Brisbane)
2018 Dilate & Soundline (curatorial project, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria)
2018 QLD Art Teachers’ Association conference (group exhibition, Brisbane)
2018 Post Datum: ESCAPISM (group exhibition, Brisbane)
2018 Tetra World (joint exhibition, Brisbane)
2017 Post Datum: Little Secrets // Little Lies (group exhibition, Brisbane)
2017 System Label: AV2 (video art festival, Brisbane)
2017 Post Datum: BED: A digital exhibition (group exhibition, Brisbane)
PERFORMANCES
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2022 FLUX (live show) Reina Takeuchi, Raya Tolentino & Monisha Chippada for Delay 45
2021 HOLDING LIGHTNESS Reina Takeuchi, Jeremy Lloyd, Billy Keohavong & Amy Zhang for Liveworks Festival, Performance Space
2021 Holding Lightness Reina Takeuchi, Jeremy Lloyd & Billy Keohavong for MCA Late program
2020 Transience Reina Takeuchi Horizon Festival
2019 PPY19 REVEALED Various choreographers Sydney Dance Company
2019 Quantum Entanglement Lauren Sherlock Supercell Dance Festival
2019 Plastic Belly Courtney Scheu Supercell Dance Festival
2018 Infinite Recollections Reina Takeuchi QUT CreateX Festival
2018 The Ninth Wave Gavin Webber The Farm Dance Co.
2018 @_WHY Surge Dance Collective Supercell Dance Festival
2017 The GIF of Dance Matt Cornell Metro Arts
2017 Parade performance Nerida Matthaei Brisbane Festival
2017 Dancing CEOs Gala Reina Takeuchi Mad Dance House
2017 Behind The Red Door Another Dance Co. Anywhere Theatre Festival
2017 Loud Compliments Scott Sneddon Woodford Folk Festival
2016 HEARD at QAGOMA Will Gill, Nerida Matthaei Nick Cave