"What does it mean to have a person in front of you? How do we 'see' the space in front of us?

Stand quietly, listen carefully to the sounds and air around you, and sense the fluctuations between light and shadow. Based on the theme of "What does it mean for a person to stand in front of a person in performance?" performance artist Takuya Takemoto reconstructs the relationship between the body and the environment and transform the viewer's perception of space through extremely subtle movements.

Takuya Takemoto was born in mountainous region in Gunma Prefecture. Since 2017, he has been performing this performance every day with or without audience in community centres in Tokyo.

The daily performance of 'being there' changes constantly beyond artistic intention and continues to awaken our perception and behaviour. This performance is an extension of this daily activity, but also a new attempt at something unique in the place where it is performed.

Moving from New York to Lancaster, UK and then to Düsseldorf and Hamburg in Germany, this performance is to be experienced by the whole body.

This was European Premiere as a part of Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange