Yumiko Yoshioka

dancer, choreographer, art director and dance instructor




















    Nationality: Japan

    Address: Berlin + Bröllin - Germany

    Website: www.ne.jp/asahi/butoh/itto/yumiko



She founded the art-formation group "TEN PEN CHii art labor" 
in 1995 with the visual artist Joachim Manger from Germany and the musician Zam Johnson from USA.
It's a resident group at
 Schloss Broellin (Castle of Broellin) - International Art 
Research Location - which lies in the utmost north-eastern part of
 ex East Germany.
She is in research of an interactivity between dance and 
installation with her partners.




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
 Paris "Le Dernier Eden", the very first Butoh performance shown in Europe.


In 1988 she founded the first German-Japanese
 dance theatre group "tatoeba - TÉATRE DANSE GROTESQUE"
 together with Minako Seki and delta RA'i. As an active member she was touring Japan, Europe and 
North America till 1994.



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.

On top of numerous workshops around 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.