Mina Nishimura

Mina Nishimura, from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh through Kota Yamazaki. She’s been working and collaborating in dance, theater and film with various artists; in most recent years with John Jasperse, Dean Moss, Rashaun Mitchel +Silas Riener, SIA, Celia-Rowlson Hall, Vicky Shick, Neil Greenberg, Nami Yamamoto, Ursula Eagly, Ellen Fisher and Kota Yamazaki. She was the Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange in 2011, at Chez Bushwick in 2013, at Movement Research in 2013-15 and at The Camargo Foundation (France) in 2017 with support from Jerome Foundation and Movement Research. She was also a danceWeb scholar at ImPulsTanz (Vienna) in 2010. Her works have been commissioned by Mount Tremper Arts Center, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, CRS and The Kitchen/Dance and Process. Her new evening-length work, Bladder Inn (and X, Y, Z, W), commissioned by Danspace project premieres in February, 2018. During those years, she has been teaching at universities and for various communities.