MASUMI KISHIMOTO

Masumi Kishimoto is a native of Tokyo, Japan, who moved to New York City and entered the intensive training at the Ailey School and graduated from its certificate program. Since then, she has choreographed pieces that combine Classical Mime, Physical Comedy and Dance for performances at the Puffin Room, Judson Church, Studio b.p.m., Theater for the New City and The Ailey Studio Theater, etc. She performed as a dancer of a-core dance arts in Reverb Festival and  the New York International Fringe Festival in a work choreographed by Asami Morita and Nichole Arvin. She also performed mime with Gregg Goldston in a five-member ensemble pieces in 2005 and 2006. Since 2009, she has performed in human kinetics movement arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MUSICFEST, the Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant, the Lower East Side Festival of Arts in NY, Pennsylvania and Germany. In 2010 she joined Racoco Productions. Recently she designed movement for "Crane Story".

She has been a nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique since 2008. She is an Artist-in-Residence at CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) in NYC.