b12 summer | main event
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b12 summer main event
—locations: eden***** studios & dock11
akira uchida
Everything Forever
This performance project invites participants to step inside the world of my choreographic process as we develop a new work together. I prioritize creating an environment where collaborators are both challenged and supported, encouraging growth, risk-taking, and the expansion of individual artistry as part of a collective body. My movement tasks and core concepts ask dancers to engage with their bodies by balancing precision with a rich sense of imagination. The work carries a charged quality, requiring heightened awareness and sensitivity from the performers. In this state, movement connects to life force, power, and vulnerability.
the description reflects an artist’s idea which was developed at the time it was submitted to b12. it may have changed by the time the workshop or the performance project is starting. please stay flexible. thank you!
biography
Based in NYC, Ottawa-born Akira Uchida is a dancer, choreographer and director whose work in dance intersects with the mediums of film, animation, fashion and photography. He has previously presented work at Fire Island Dance Festival, Battery Dance Festival, Capezio Ace Awards and has created work for the Clyfford Still Museum, Point Park University, The Juilliard School summer intensive, CLI Conservatory and Flight Path Dance Project. He recently was an Emerging Choreographer at Springboard Danse 2025. He has choreographed and movement directed for music artists including Florence and The Machine, INJI, HAAi, Leon Vynehall, Saint Levant, Flyana Boss, Photay, Indochine and his recent films “Love Tempo”, “STILL” and “What A Place” premiered on Nowness. He is also a resident choreographer at Play Me Techno, an underground performance rave in Brooklyn. Outside of artistic achievements, Akira regularly teaches in the NYC dance scene through workshop series and pop-up classes and remains dedicated to inspiring the next generation through teaching and advocacy: he is a board member at Share The Movement, a non-profit dedicated to supporting and providing opportunity to young BIPOC dancers.
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