Ikuyo Kuroda　_BATIK leader / choreographer / dancer _

Ikuyo Kuroda started learning classical ballet at the age of six. While still a member of Tani Momoko Ballet Company, she went to England in 1997, where she started to study contemporary dance at the Laban school of dance. In 2000 she became a dancer with "Kim Itoh + the Glorious Future". In 2002 she founded the dance company 'BATIK', and her first work "SIDE-B" won the National Committee Award of the Yokohama Platform of Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis. In 2003 she won the Excellence Prize at the SPAC Dance Festival 2003 organized by the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, and the grand prize at the Toyota Choreography Award 2003. In 2004 she won the 4th Asahi Performing Arts Award and the Kirin Dance Support Award for directing, choreographing and performing in her works "Flowers Flow, Time Coagulates", and "SHOKU". In 2009 she performed in the work "another BATIK - to the hills of Babylon" choreographed by Akira Kasai and co-presented by F/T 09 Spring, followed by "Flowers flow, time congeals", a recreation of "Flowers Flow, Time Coagulates", staged in the frame of F/T 09 Autumn, leaving a great impact on the audience.
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