About Mio
New York
Mio Ishikawa (CBA, Chelsea Factory ’25) is a Japanese movement artist based in New York City, working collaboratively across multiple artistic mediums. Ishikawa trained at the Juilliard School (BFA 2019) and has performed with Sidra Bell Dance New York, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC, and with choreographers Stefanie Batten Bland, Austin Goodwin, Kyle Abraham, Ivan Perez, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, Michelle Dorrance, Maleek Washington, Celia Rowlson-Hall, and Amy J Gardner. Her works have been presented at High Line Nine Gallery in Chelsea, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the New World Symphony in Miami. Ishikawa choreographed and directed the movements for photographers Tatyana Nagayeva, Olga Rabetskaya and Pearlin Lii. Ishikawa is a co-founder and an associate director of a dance platform BODYSONNET. As a core member, she has been a part of residencies in the United States and Germany and has produced dance performances and films. She was a 2023-2024 CBA-Juilliard Fellow.
Project: “Ma” is a work examining the idea of selflessness as freedom that is inspired by the Sengoku Period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This research is dedicated to human resilience and the relationship of freedom and selflessness throughout one of Japan’s most arduous years of civil war and profound unrest.
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