Yokko is an Actor, Butoh & Theatre Artist, Movement coach from Japan. She has performed in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including “Best One-Woman Show”, “Best Choreography” “Best Physical Theatre” and “Best Actress” for Butoh Medea (United Solo NYC 2014 & 2015 at Theatre Row, TVolution 2018 Hollywood Fringe Awards). Butoh Medea was selected to perform in Warsaw, Poland. (United Solo Europe 2015, Teatre Syrena), toured Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, nominated The Asian Arts Award. It has been touring Europe and Universities in the USA since 2016. (www.butohmedea.com) Other Theatre credits include: Lone Wolf Tribe’s Body Concert (Labapalooza! 2018 at St. Ann’s Warehouse), Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth (Pan Asian Rep’s NU Works, United Solo 2017: Theatre Row, Hollywood Fringe 2019: Winner of Best International Award), BALDY (CRS NYC, United Solo 2013, Hollywood Fringe 2013, Fringe NYC 2012), Dance Credits Include: Shira Hime Ryu (NY Butoh Institute Festival 2018 at Theatre For The New City), Hijikata Tatsumi’s Last Words , ManJuShaGe (Dance Medium, Noguchi Room, Hijikata Archive, Keio University, 2017 & 2018), FACET (Irondale Center, White Wave, Hollywood Fringe 2013). Her choreographed work, SHINKA has been received several awards such as Outstanding Production, Choreography and Ensemble (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2018), and also received Outstanding Premier production of a play, Outstanding Choreography & Movement from New York Innovative Theatre Foundation (NY IT Award 2019). Yokko also acted in several local and international films, one of which is the 2016 Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo. Recently she has been appearing several music videos as a Butoh dancer including Ready To Let Go (2019) -Cage The Elephant (Grammy Winner – Best Rock Album 2017), AUSENCIAS (2019) – NOIA directed by Amy Gardner, Dream Decay (2019)-POW!, and Too Much Money (2019) – Automatic.

She has been regularly offering workshops (Butoh & Movement, Butoh & Physical Theatre, Transformation) in several places include NYC, Atelier Teatro Fisico Performing Arts University in Turin (Italy), Edinburgh (UK), Warsaw (Poland), Izmir (Turkey), St. Lawrence University (NY), SUNY New Paltz (NY), Amherst College (MA), Actors Studio Drama School MFA, Stella Adler Academy of Acting, The Actors Studio, and at some events such as UNFIX NYC and Ecstatic Dance. She currently serves as an adjunct professor in Movement at The New Group’s BFA in Acting program at Long Island University in Brooklyn (LIU Brooklyn). She is the artistic director of a Butoh & Theatre group Ren Gyo Soh. (www.rengyosoh.com). A recipient of 2019 Brooklyn Arts Fund for her new project, En. B.A in Theatre (UAlbany), MFA in Acting (The Actors Studio) www.yokko-online.com.