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Yasuko Yokoshi

YasukoYokoshi was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She currently lives and works in New York City. Yokoshi's works, which combine different disciplines and mediums, have been presented at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, the Japan Society, P.S. 122, and abroad at the Festival a/d Werf and Frascati Theater (Holland), and the Festival Sommerszene (Austria).

Recent works include: Reframe the Framework DDD (2008), a reimagining of David Gordon's seminal work from 1984 created in collaboration with high-school performers from Brattleboro, Vermont; what we when we (2006), which transforms Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love into Japanese traditional Kabuki Su-odori dance; and Shuffle (2003), a solo which looks at the choreographer's family history through the lens of Japanese mythology and Shinto Buddhism.

Recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award (2008), and a BAXTen Award (2007). She is also the recipient of Creative Capital grant (2002), a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship (2004) and two "Bessie" awards for her choreography in Shuffle and what we when we.

Yokoshi currently serves as an associate curator at The Kitchen and is a member of the Board of Directors of Movement Research.  She has given numerous lectures and workshops at schools and universities across the United States. 

Yasuko Yokoshi is also a published author whose first autobiographical book, Once in a Life Time, received the acclaimed Japanese Ogai Mori Literary Award (1990).  She holds a B.A. from Hampshire College, has studied acting and directing at New York University, and holds a first degree black belt in Kendo, a Japanese martial art.