The world of Butoh Dance

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(dancer, choreographer, art director and instructor)

Born in Tokyo, living in Germany since 1988

She founded an art-formation groupe "TEN PEN CHii art labor"
in 1995 with a visual artist, Joachim Manger from Germany and
a musician, Zam Johnson from USA. It's a resident group at
Schloss Broellin (Castle of Broellin), International Theater
Research Location, which lies in the utmost northeastern part of
the ex East Germany.

She has been in research of an interactivity between dance and
installation with her partner. They created a number of works,
such as "N. YOiN", "DA-PPi", "i-ki",or "Test Labor", each of
which won the highest praise in experimental art scenes.
Besides international tours throughout Europe and North Amrica,
she is an art director of the Butoh Related Art Project "Ex...it!"
with Delta Ra'i, held at Schloss Broellin every 4 years since 1995.

In the early seventies and eighties, she was a member of the first
Japanese women's Butoh dance theater, ARIADONE.
In 1978, she performed with Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda in
"Le Dernier Eden", Europe's first Butoh performance in Paris.
From 1988 to 1994, she was an active member of German-Japanese
dance theatre group "tatoeba-THEATRE DANSE GROTESQUE"
with Minako Seki and Delta Ra'i, touring in Japan, Europe and
North America.

On top of numberless workshops in the world, her experience in
choreography and art-direction in workshop performance with
different levels of participants deserves full acclaim.
Till now, she led workshop performance in Berlin, Italy, Austria,
and North America.