Benjamin Akio Kimitch is a Japanese-American artist and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the recipient of an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship and New York Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer. Kimitch has been commissioned to make original works for New York Live Arts, The Shed, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, and Princeton University; and his works have been remounted by The Noguchi Museum and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. In the US, he has been awarded artistic residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, MANCC, Movement Research, and others. Kimitch brings to his artistic work over 15 years of experience as a professional producer, currently as the Producer at Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, having recently developed new productions by Huang Ruo, Bill T. Jones, and the Broadway-bound “CATS: The Jellicle Ball.”
