Help Fund TAKE Dance's World Premieres

We are raising money to benefit TAKE Dance's New York performance on December 13-15, 2024, at Arts on Site NYC, and any donation will help make an impact. The program will include two world premieres choreographed by Jill Echo, Associate Director and Takehiro Ueyama.

Your support will not only help create new, ground-breaking work, but will also help ensure that all the artists of TAKE Dance continue to flourish. We thank you for your generosity and look forward to seeing you at the performance in December 13-15.

Tickets available at:

https://www.artsonsite.org/tickets

Takehiro Ueyama, Artistic Director/Choreographer

Jill Echo, Associate Director/Choreographer

Dancers: Kristen Bell, Khris Beeson, Nana Tsuda, Milan Misko, Jamie Kleinschnitz, Maggie Costales

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, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 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.