Azusa TAKEUCHI moved to France in 2008 with a scholarship from the Japanese government for artists. After training at the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées from 2010 to 2012, she worked as a performer for several choreographers and directors, including Elise Vigneron, Myriam Gourfink, Franck Vigroux, Romeo Castellucci, Rita Cioffi, Motoko Hirayama, and for opera productions directed by Jérôme Deschamps (choreographed by Franck Chartier / Peeping Tom) and Christian Rizzo.
In addition, she dances and creates her own small-scale pieces such as Le blanc (2010), KAMi (2011), and emotional intelligence (2015). With these solos, she won the Masdanza Prize at the Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2011 in Japan, and was selected as a finalist for Masdanza16 in the Canary Islands (2011) and the Toyota Choreography Award in Japan (2012). In 2019, she was selected by Aerowaves for 40Winks.
She began creating larger-scale pieces in collaboration with director Mladen Materic, first with a solo work Prayer for Vera Ek in 2015, then with Forêt, alongside composer and director Franck Vigroux, in 2021. In 2019, she created her solo kara-da-kara, produced and presented by Théâtre Garonne, the Biennale of Charleroi Danse, the Maison de la Culture du Japon, and the Yokohama Redbrick Warehouse in Japan.