I was born in Nagano, Japan, into a wonderful family. At the age of three, I began training in classical ballet with my mother, a ballet teacher, using a dresser as a barre in our small living room.

 

My entire childhood and teenage years were devoted to my dream of becoming a ballerina.

I received a great deal of encouragement and worked tirelessly, eventually winning a major ballet competition, which led to a fortunate career as a professional dancer.

 

I have been dancing professionally for over thirty years in Japan, Europe, and the United States, including with the Matsuyama Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and Armitage Gone! Dance in New York.

I toured extensively around the world with these companies and participated in the creation of numerous new works alongside a wide range of artists and collaborators.

 

Over the past several years, my artistic practice has evolved beyond performance into creating interdisciplinary works that combine choreography, autobiographical storytelling, spoken text, film, documentary materials, and participatory research.

Through these different forms, I explore how personal memories and lived experiences reflect wider social and cultural structures.

 

My recent works—including Please Cry (2022), DIVINE (2023), fish áɪ lens (2025), and YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor (2026)—draw on my own experiences to examine themes of inherited memory, migration, identity, belonging, and the lasting impact of institutional values on the body.

 

Alongside creating performances, I facilitate autobiographical performance workshops, Turning Your Story into Movement, where participants transform their own lived experiences into performance. These workshops have become an essential part of my artistic research, continually expanding my understanding of autobiography as a shared human experience rather than a purely personal narrative.

 

Although performing remains the deepest source of joy in my artistic life—and I feel I still have much more to discover on stage—I now see my practice as extending across performance, choreography, filmmaking, and collaborative artistic research.

 

Since relocating to Berlin in 2019, I have been developing an independent practice that embraces interdisciplinary collaboration while continuing to search for new ways of connecting personal stories with broader human experience.