Peripheries development residency (2023), supported by Critical Path Start-Up Grant and March Dance Festival. Image credit: Samuel Beazley
Peripheries by Reina Takeuchi & Tom Kenttä
Peripheries Residency | Sydney / Warrane 2023
Peripheries, a collaboration between disciplines and different groups of people, including two football freestylers and skaters, and two dancers who work across contemporary and street dance. An exploration of the casual beauty of the suburbs, including how youth culture finds serenity, radical joy and release in the streets of Greater Sydney.
The Peripheries development residency (2023) was supported by the Critical Path Start-Up Grant, March Dance Festival and City of Sydney
Peripheries Residency | Yokohama / Japan 2024
The time at MPP Totsuka is an expansion of Peripheries, a collaboration between disciplines, including football freestyle, contemporary and street dance. An exploration of the casual beauty of the suburbs, including how youth culture finds serenity, radical joy and release, the residency project will be meditating on Yokohama’s terrain and subtle beauties.
Dancers: Reina Takeuchi, Tom Kentta, Olivia Hadley and Yuki Tokomoto. Choreography by Tom Kentta & Reina Takeuchi.
Related links below:
Peripheries by Reina Takeuchi & Tom Kenttä - Murasaki Penguin Project Totsuka (mpptotsuka.com)
Collaboration between Reina Takeuchi & Tom Kenttä. The duo currently live and work on Bidjigal Land.
Reina Takeuchi (she/her/they) is a Japanese-Australian dance maker, artist-researcher, and curator interested in cross-cultural
exchange. Her performance projects have included installations at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and SomoS Arts, Berlin and performances for Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, Performance Space and the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Late program.
Tom Kenttä (he/him) is a Finnish-Australian movement artist specializing in the restorative nature of object-based practices such as freestyle football and freestyle basketball. In 2022, he travelled to Paris for Danse Élargie, a contemporary dance competition directed by Boris Charmatz. For the first development period of Peripheries, they received the Critical Path Start-Up Commission, supported by Critical Path, March Dance Festival and the City of Sydney. Most recently they performed together at Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Pier ⅔.