Biography

Kaseki Yuko

Kaseki Yuko lives and works as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in Berlin (1995-present).
From 1989 to 2001, Kaseki was the primary dancer in Anzu Furukawa's company Dance Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt.
Kaseki founded the dance company cokaseki with Marc Ates in 1995 and produced various projects with musicians such as Axel Doerner, Andrea Neumann, Antonis Anissegos, Aki Takase, Olaf Rupp, Johannes Wallmann and visual artist such as Francois Giovangigli, Ampelio Zappalorto, Chiharu Shiota, Valter Kokot, Søren Dø, Erika Matsunami. Since 1999, Kaseki started a solo series with Ates as director, lighting and stage designer. Works from this collaboration include solo performance Tooboe, Kudan,Toquage, a Way a Lone a Last a Long the and Birthday-Suit-Me. Ensemble works include Haru Yayoi Chan Kou, all A lone, Invisible Real, Anna Tommy Gramm and Let my Fish Loose performed throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. These works are based on Butoh and western contemporary dance technique to create concise and precise moving theatre. cokaseki follow the way of desperate existence exposes tragicomedy in dense time-a space to reveal a kaleidoscope of stories.
Since 2001 she has worked with Shinichi Iova-Koga and inkBoat (San Francisco) on dance theatre works Cockroach, Onion, Glass Head and improvisation performance.
Kaseki organize and perform numerous improvisational performances with international performer and musician in Berlin.
Kudan was nominated Toyota Choreography Award in Tokyo. cokaseki and inkBoat's collaboration performance Ame to Ame recieved the best ensemble performance by Isadora Duncan Dance Award 2004 in San Francisco.