Yumiko Yoshioka

Yumiko Yoshioka was a founding member of the first all-female butoh company Ariadone and has been instrumental in bringing butoh to Europe first with Ariadone in Paris in 1978 and then in Berlin with tatoeba THEATRE DANSE GROTESQUE (1988-1994). She has toured and taught extensively in Japan, Europe, Russia Israel and both North and South America and presently is based at schloss broellin in eastern Germany where she runs the company TEN PEN Chii art labor with visual artist Joachim Manger and musician Zam Johnson. Since 1995 she also has been an artistic director of “eX .. it! Dance Exchange Project “with delta RA’i.