Ikuyo Kuroda | BATIK leader, choreographer, dancer

Ikuyo Kuroda started learning classical ballet at the age of six. While still a member of Tani Momoko Ballet Company, she went to England in 1997, where she started to study contemporary dance at the Laban school of dance. In 2000 she became a dancer with “Kim Itoh + the Glorious Future”. In 2002 she founded the dance company ‘BATIK’, and her first work “SIDE-B” won the National Committee Award of the Yokohama Platform of Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis. In 2003 she won the Excellence Prize at the SPAC Dance Festival 2003 organized by the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center the grand prize at the Toyota Choreography Award 2003. In 2004 she won the 4th Asahi Performing Arts Award and the Kirin Dance Support Award for directing, choreographing and performing in her works “Flowers Flow, Time Coagulates”, and “SHOKU”. Recently Noizm05 leader Jo Kanamori has commissioned works from her, and she has appeared in “ASOBU” choreographed by Josef Nadj, continuously expanding her field of activities