Keiko Ninomiya
"a dramatic dynamo" Now Magazine
Keiko Ninomiya is originally from Japan. She travelled to England to study at the London Studio Centre and the London Contemporary Dance School. Keiko then came to Toronto, Canada where she graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Since graduation, Keiko has appeared in works by CORPUS, Hiroshi K. Miyamoto, Masumi Sato, William Yong, Matjash Mrozewski, Mari Osanai, Lincoln Shand and Denise Fujiwara. Keiko has been showcasing her own choreographic work at various venues since 1996 including, fFIDA International Dance Festival, The CanAsian Dance Festival and in Aomori, Japan. She is the founder of the Yuragi Dance Project and co-founder of AKA Dance, ZUKE and Green Tea, a collective of Japanese contemporary dancers in Toronto. Keiko is the joint recipient of the eighth annual Paula Citron fFIDA Award (2003) with Louis Laberge-Côté for their piece Futari en trois couleurs which was named one of the top ten performances of the year in both the Globe and Mail and Now Magazine. Keiko and Kinya "Zulu" Tsuruyama (ZUKE) were nominated for a 2007 Dora Award for Outstanding New Choreography for their butoh and contemporary dance collaboration You see the tree you don't see the forest. Keiko was invited to choreograph for Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa and premiered the finished work at AKA Dance's White Moon Dance Nights in February 2009.
Photo: Malgorzata Nowacka