Takako Suzuki

Takako Suzuki, born in Nara, Japan, began her dance training after studying design in Tokyo and at HBK Braunschweig by Anzu Furuwaka. Since 1992, she has been collaborating with Sasha Waltz and has appeared in the productions »Travelogue I - Twenty to eight,« »Allee der Kosmonauten,« »Zweiland« and »Körper« by Sasha Waltz & Guests since 1993. In 2008, she received  the Tanzplan Dresden scholarship for the works »Empire« at the Semperoper Dresden and »Collavocation,« which was performed in 2010 at the European Center for the Arts Hellerau. Other notable works include »Blind-Tisch« (2015), »Treader« (Labor Sonor Berlin, 2016), and »More than one species« as part of the German-Georgian Year 2017 supported by the Goethe-Institut. Suzuki pursues a multidisciplinary approach in her work methods and collaborates with numerous musicians, including Dietmar Diesner (saxophone), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Robin Hayward (tuba), and Yan Jun (poet/voice).