Maya Takeda

Dancer, Dance Artist

Profile

Maya Takeda is a Japanese dancer and dance artist whose practice spans contemporary dance, choreography, improvisation, site-specific performance, international festival work, and cross-cultural collaboration.

Education

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, United Kingdom

  • • MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional, 2021-2022
  • • Graduate Diploma in Dance, 2020-2021
  • • International Foundation: Contemporary Dance, 2019-2020

Japan Women's College of Physical Education, Tokyo, Japan

Department of Movement Sciences, Dance Studies major, 2013-2017.

Selected Dance Experience

Want to Dance Festival

Lines, choreography by Maya Takeda, Taipei, Taiwan, 2026.

Improvisation Performance

Hitomisohito, production by Horie Yoshihiro, Atelier Kontondo, Nagoya, Japan, 2026.

Oishida AIR

Collaborative project with Korean dancer Taewook Woo, relative direction by Maya Takeda, Yamagata, Japan, 2025.

ARTSinkTank Dance Festival

Lines, choreography by Maya Takeda, M Theater, Seoul, South Korea, 2025.

Altreforme Sociocultural Art Festival

Lines, choreography by Maya Takeda, Lisbon, Portugal, 2025.

Yokohama Dance Collection 2024

Finalist for Competition 1, LINES, choreography by Maya Takeda, Yokohama, Japan, 2024.

10 Sentidos 2024

Finalist for Choreographic Competition, LINES, Valencia, Spain, 2024.

Resolution Festival 2023

Find your Lines, choreography by Maya Takeda, The Place, London, United Kingdom, 2023.

Additional International Work

  • Résonances, project by Aurélie Freoua, Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, London, United Kingdom, 2024.
  • Trace of Transient Encounters by Shupin Liu, Greenwich Market, London, United Kingdom, 2023.
  • London Fashion Week, Me and my ugliness by Guan Yingqi, London, United Kingdom, 2023.
  • Counterpoint, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom, 2023.
  • The 5th SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival, Find your Lines, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey, 2022.

Upcoming Productions 2026

AICHI NEXT Performing Arts Project

Cosmos Park Re-creation, production by CI bu, Aichi Art Centre, Nagoya, Japan, upcoming November 2026.

AICHI NEXT Performing Arts Project

in-between-ness, choreography by Maya Takeda, performed by Maya Takeda and Taewook Woo, Aichi Art Centre, Nagoya, Japan, upcoming October 2026.