Kimiko Tanabe is a fourth-generation Japanese American artist. She explores the mediums of performance art, dance, writing, origami, and paper, and is in a committed partnership with her .38 Muji pen. She is forever fascinated with Japanese folklore and as a lover of literature she finds herself making important life decisions under the eyes and influence of fiction. Her work combines her background in contemporary dance with her literary tendencies to create surreal performance art that is both joyful and haunting, and that gives platform and power to the Asian American emotional experience. For Tanabe, art is intimate and inexact. She graduated from Colorado College with a degree in creative writing and dance. She is a 2022 BAX Space Grant Recipient, a 2022 Gallim Moving Artist in Residence, a 2022 Colorado College Artist in Residence, 2021 Artist in Resident at The Floor, and a 2021 Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup Residency Cohort Member. Tanabe currently performs with glenn potter-takata and Shannon Yu and has performed with marion spencer, Catherine Galasso Projects, Kizuna Dance, Seymour::Dance Collective, Lisa Fagan and Hannah Mitchell, HIJACK, and Nial Ibragimov.
Instagram: @kimiko_tanabe
Back to LiftOff Creative and Project Development Residency
K.J. Holmes, photo by Elyse Mertz
“Performance Mix Festival has its own life, and Karen and the staff continue to evolve with the times in a way I appreciate…it was tremendous to be a Liftoff AIR and then get to show the work I had continued to explore as an AIR a year later at PMF!”
– K.J. Holmes
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
(646) 510-1824
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
