Mina Nishimura

Mina Nishimura, from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh and improvisational dance through Kota Yamazaki’s teaching. While performing nationally and internationally with many inspirational choreographers, her own works have been presented by DTW, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research, Roulette among other venues. Nishimura was the danceWeb scholar at Impuls Tanz (Vienna) in 2009, and was a curator for MR Spring Festival 2013. She was on AIR program at Brooklyn Art Exchange in 2010-2011, at Chez Bushwick in 2013 and is a current AIR (2013-2014) at Movement Research. Nishimura has been teaching at Bennington College and Ferris University (Japan).