• Taka Takashi (滝口貴) is an independent practicing artist and producer of Japanese heritage based in Naarm (Melbourne) with over 10 years of experience in the arts sector. His art-making process is to question social norms and their structures from intersectional perspectives and to create provocative works through the mediums of poetry, installations, and various movement-based techniques: Suzuki Method, Butoh, and shamanic/trance dance practices

  • Over past 8 years, he has presented his solo works nationally and internationally and performed in over 10 seasons of dance, physical theatre, music-theatre and short films. He worked and performed with various groups, companies and Festivals such as; a Naarm-based psycho-physical dance collectives, Tony Yap + Company, a contemporary Jazz band I Hold Lion’s Paw (MonaFoma 2023), Weave Movement Theatre (Melbourne Fringe 2022), an Uruguay based artist & director Tamara Cubas (Rising Festival, Melbourne 2022), a Butoh artist Yumi Umiumare (ButohOUT! Festival 2018-21), and a film production company Mystical Dog Productions for award-winning short films (2022).

    • Flesh Voice / flesh writing (2020) as part of Melaka Arts Festival | Melbourne (Online)

    • Am I Queer? (2020) as part of 'The Cat Eats Dickalicious |Midsummer Festival |Melbourne

    • The Fox's Wedding (2019) with Kiki Ando | Bandung International Arts Festival | Indonesia & Melbourne

    • A Layer (2019) as part of 'Triptych' with Emily | Dancehouse | Melbourne

    • A Whisper of the Lone Dancer (2017) | Melaka Arts and Performance Festival | Malaysia

    • Mimpi Tikar - Dream of the carpet (2017) | Pelem Festival | Indonesia

    • This world, that world (2016) | MAP India Festival | Mangar Village, India

    • To Live (2013) | Melaka Arts and Performance Festival| Malaysia

  • His unique background as a social worker and an inclusive art practitioner has greatly informed his artistic aesthetics and pracitce. He founded his production company, ImPermanence Productions in 2015. He was one of the recipients of the Victorian Independent Producers Initiative (2020-2021), an initiative funded by Creative Victoria. He has achieved to produced and performed 25 community-led performing arts festivals in 4 countries (Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India) and programmed several hundred artists from all around the world since 2015.

    • ButohOUT!
      2022 - Blessed Chaos
      2021 - Ab New/Normal
      2020 - Primal Colour
      2019 - Forbidden Laughter
      2018 - Body - Our Closest Nature
      @Abbotsford Covent, Melbourne

    • HuruHara Feb 2020
      as a part of ASIA TOPA
      @ Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne

    • MAP Moreland Arts and Performance Festival Feb 2019
      Siteworks, Brunswick Melbourne

    • Melaka Arts and Performance Festival (MAP Fest)
      Melaka, Malaysia
      2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (online), 2021 (online) 2022 & 2023

    • Pelem Festival (2 week artists' led performing arts festival) Pelem, East Jawa, Indonesia 2016, 2018, 2020 (online)

    • The Embodied Landscape as a part of Small Town Transformation - Regional Arts Victoria Assistant Artistic Advisory & Cultural Liaison for Indonesian Performing theatre for Sampang Agung Centre for Performing Arts (SACPA)
      Regional Victoria, Rainbow, Australia Apr-May 2018

    • MAP Delhi Workshop Festival Associate Operation Manager (Manger, India)
      Nov 2017 & Oct 2018

    • Evocation of Butoh as part of Asian TOPA (Mar 2017)
      Lamama Courthouse, Melbourne, Australia

    • Dream of Embryo presented by Katsura Kan (Jan 2018)
      Brunswick, Melbourne

    • Dance of Midnight presented by Seisaku & Yuri Nagaoka (Sep 2015)
      Melbourne, Australia

    • Chosen as a one of 8 Victorian Independent Producers Initiative
      Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
      Creative Victoria

  • Mapping Melbourne
    Advisory Committee
    Multicultural Art Victoria
    2019 & 2020

    Australian Performing Arts Market
    (Lead) Host
    Melbourne, Australia
    Feb 2020 & June 2023

    Theatre Olympics by Suzuki Tadashi Co. of Toga
    Operation Team leader
    Toga, Toyama, Japan
    Aug-Sep 2019