TAKE DANCE

TAKE DANCE is a NYC-based contemporary dance company founded by Artistic Director Takehiro Ueyama. Since its inception in 2005, TAKE Dance has been praised for its exciting athletic movement and unusual sensitivity to create distinctive work that is uniquely “TAKE”.   

Take's dance works are presented by leading institutions and festivals including The Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, Joyce SoHo, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Central Park Summer Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, PS/21 Chatham, The Judson Memorial Church, Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Spring to Dance Festival in St. Louis, Washington DC’s National Cherry Blossom Festival, The Mann Center in Philadelphia, and others.   

Take’s choreography has been featured and performed by Newport Contemporary Ballet, Ballet X, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Encore!, ArcDanz, The Juilliard Dance, The Ailey School, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, among many others. ​ 

Take has enjoyed worldwide recognition: his Sakura Sakura was a prizewinner at the International Modern Dance Choreographic Competition in Burgos, Spain, and he was one of four choreographers selected for the 2006 Free to Rep at FSU’s Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. In 2010, he was the first choreographer to win the S&R Foundation’s prestigious Washington Award. Take received the 2015 Jadin Wong Award for Emerging Asian American choreographer by Asian American Arts Alliance. Take was awarded a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Grant. Most recently, he received the 2023 Danse Mirage Foundation's Choreography grant for his new work Bamboo Dreams.

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Kristen Bell in Bamboo Dreams, Photo by Whitney Browne