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About

Glenn Potter-Takata (Bronx, NY) is a Japanese-American media designer and artist working in performance. His practice is somatic-based, utilizing butoh, improvisation, media equipment, and consumer materials to create performances around the body as a historical site in post-internment America. Preoccupied with the consumer culture runoff from the Japanese archipelago, Glenn juxtaposes the materiality of consumer detritus with his interests in Buddhist concepts of emptiness and Western notions of nothingness. Both rigorous and playful in his process, Glenn incorporates aspects of Buddhist philosophy and pedagogy into his work, but also sometimes performs wearing a giant Pikachu costume.

His performance works have been shown in New York City at Danspace Project, Mabou Mines, PAGEANT, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at Judson Church, Grace Exhibition Space, Gibney Dance Center, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix, WestFest, and with Pioneers Go Easts, among other places. Nationally, his work has been presented by Cannonball in Philadelphia, and his first solo gallery exhibition opened in January of 2023 at Rogers Studio Gallery in Las Vegas. He has been awarded residencies with Movement Research, Gibney Dance Center (Work Up), CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College, Rogers Art Loft, and is the recipient of a MAP Fund Award, Bronx Cultural Visions Award, Bronx Dance Fund Award, and a Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Fellowship. Glenn is currently a teacher of sound and projection design for live performance at Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.