TAKDAJA is an alternative, international, independent performance and production group based in the U.K., working across disciplines to create dynamic, layered, and visual productions that challenge traditional narratives and reimagine expression and form.
Their past work has been described by Cindy Marcolina for Broadway World U.K. as: “Brazen experimentalism leans into performance art and blurs the lines of form and style with a non-narrative approach. They challenge the status quo chest first, testing the limits and the very concept of a play to introduce ideas like naked existentialism, romantic disillusionment, unilateral desire, gender expectations, cultural demands, and the juxtaposition of perception and reality”.
They incorporate various techniques from individual training backgrounds such as psychophysical theatre (Eugenio Barba/Odin Teatret, Grotowski, Michael Chekhov, Suzuki, Viewpoints), clowning (Wright, DeCastro, Sobal, Hopkins), improv (Groundlings, Improv Olympics, UCB), and science.
Seeking new ways of communicating with the audience to further push boundaries of theatre, TAKDAJA aims to create productions that are not necessarily dependent on their story-line and which are accessible to those who may not always feel included by traditional approaches; performances with a pulsating core which embrace change and are not reliant on a specific theatrical space.