Profile

Natsuko Tezuka started her career as a solo dancer in 1996. She produced her first Anatomical Experiment series with the theme of body observation in 2001. She was a finalist of the 2002 Toyota Choreography Award.
She was appointed as an artist-in-residence at ST Spot in 2005. She has organized "Dojo-Yaburi" project - an outdated practice of getting into her attractive artists, studying and sharing each other's methods for dancing since 2005.
She performed the second part of the series as part of the New York Japan Society’s “Emerging Dancers and Choreographers” project in 2005. She was part of participants in “Australia - Japan dance Exchange 2006” in Sydney. She performed Private Trace in “Japan Now 2007” in Berlin and Poland. She was invited in “The 9th IDF Jakarta (Jakarta International Performing Arts Festival)” and “Artists Open Doors: Japan/UK” in London, 2008.
Her latest work, Anatomical Experiment 5 is premiered in 2010. She will take part in “CAN THE SACRED BE PERFORMED?” – research project in Helsinki, give her workshop and perform, November 2010.
Since 2003, she has offered workshops for intellectual disabilities, dancers, actors, musicians and common people.