I am a dance performance artist, educator, and creator ​based in Brooklyn, NY. My movement practice, both on stage and in the classroom, centers around unveiling//distorting the anatomical//social form and function of my Asian body. My work is a continuous pursuit of understanding my distant Japanese ancestry while embodying the complexities of diaspora and struggles of femininity within the context of patriarchy.

I have been invited to teach or choreograph for ​the Limon Dance Company Summer Intensive, BigKid Summer and Winter Create + ​Connect, Gibney Dance Summer Studies, and DISCO RIOT.

Since earning my BFA from Point Park University in 2019, I have been a company member with Sidra Bell Dance New York (SBDNY). In 2022, I was appointed Rehearsal Director. With the company, I have taught at institutions such as Harvard University, ​The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of the Arts, SUNY ​Purchase, and more.

ABOUT ME

PERFORMANCE CREDITS

SIDRA BELL DANCE NEW YORK

2019 - PRESENT

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, TEACHING ARTIST, COMPANY DANCE ARTIST

BIGKID DANCE / MARK CASERTA

2025

PERFORMER

KANON SUGINO

2025

PERFORMER

KOSTAS CONTEMPORARY DANCE

2022

PERFORMER

WLDFLWR DANCE COLLECTIVE

2022, 2023

PERFORMER AND COLLABORATOR

EDUCATION ROLES

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (SBDNY)

Harvard University

University of the Arts

SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance

ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER (SBDNY)

The Juilliard School

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Marymount Manhattan College

University of Michigan

Dual Rivet Spring Workshop

GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER/TEACHER

Forza Dance

2025 - NYC

Gibney Summer Studies

2024 - NYC

DISCO RIOT Pop In/Pop Out Master Class

2024 - San Diego, CA

Limon Summer Intensive

2023 - NYC

BIGKID Summer and Winter Create + Connect

2022/2023 - Philedelphia, PA

CHOREOGRAPHY

"FIG JAM" >

presented by THAT SHOW

Index Space, NYC (2024)

"A MEDITATION ON DISTORTED LINEAGE"

presented by LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival

Campos Community Garden, NYC (2024)

"HOLLOW ENOUGH FOR TWO" >

performed by BigKid Summer Create + Connect participants

Philedelphia, PA (2023)

"KOMAINU DUET" (WIP) >

made possible by MOtiVE Brooklyn, NY (Space Grantee, 2023)

“Generously present, Kimie was making distinct ​choices of weightedness or weightlessness over ​and over again, and she was captivating. No ​sentence was entirely complete, and therefore I ​was not ahead of her or behind her, I was with ​her.”

- HANNAH LIEBERMAN FOR DANCE ENTHUSIAST