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Akira Takayama (高山 明, Takayama Akira, born 1969) is a Japanese director. He is the leader of the theatre unit Port B, which he founded in 2003 to create site-specific performances.
Akira Takayama is known for the way he reads the life of urban landscapes, perceives things seen and heard on the streets from a perspective of theatrical physicality and turns them into performance works to tour the theater scene.
Akira Takayama was born in 1969 in Japan. He is an actor, known for No Reservations (2007), Isle of Dogs (2018) and Step Up 3D (2010).
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Akira Takayama Biography. Theatre director Akira Takayama creates projects that challenge the conventions of traditional theatre. Referring to this new theatrical platform as 'theatre 2.0', Takayama's projects expand and enrich the audience's experience through participation in performative events that treat entire cities as stages.
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May 8, 2017 · Akira Takayama. Active initially in theater in Germany, Akira Takayama (b. 1969) returned to Japan and formed the unit Port B in 2002. From 2006, he has been undertaking projects in the urban environment based on theatrical concepts deriving from physically active research.
Akira Takayama｜Director. Born in 1969. In 2002, he formed the theater company Port B, and since then has been producing installations, touring performances and social experiments utilizing urban spaces as a way of engaging with cities and societies across the world.
Akira Takayama is a Japanese theater director known for creating projects that challenge the conventional framework of theater. In 2002 he founded Port B, a network of artists, intellectuals, performers and activists working collaboratively with the aim to reimagine the discipline of theatre and its relationship to society.
