［profile］ Yuka Uchida

Yuka Uchida

Dancer and choreographer. Her choreography is informed by the performance environment and surroundings, and has been presented in various indoor and outdoor venues. Notable works include Living Series (2014, 2019–23), in which she choreographs movements based on a diary documenting her daily life; Respect People (2020–), in which she uses her imagination to fantasize about (and misunderstand) the people that she admires and respects, incorporating their movements into her choreography; and New Fieldwork (2023–), which explores pigeon communities through fieldwork conducted by amateurs. Uchida has also performed as a dancer in works by various choreographers and artists. Since she was a child, she has lived with budgies, cockatiels,

tropical fish, guppies, beetles, and dogs.

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New Fieldwork: Kyoto

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This research project observes pigeons in Kyoto, documenting them through photography, video, text, sketches, interviews, and so on, and providing analysis. Is there anything distinctly Kansai or Kyoto about the pigeons? Instead of academic fieldwork, the project searches for “amateur” ways to get closer to the animals around us that ignore standard tactics and systematic methodologies.

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