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. Glenn’s performance works juxtapose the materiality of consumer detritus with his interests in Buddhist concepts of emptiness and Western notions of nothingness. His work has been shown in New York City at Danspace Project, Mabou Mines, PAGEANT, Kestrels, 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 Rogers Studio Gallery in Las Vegas. He has been an artist-in-residence with Movement Research, Gibney Dance Center (Work Up), CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College, Rogers Art Loft, Ucross, 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.
