AccoDance
I've met many talented people who has various different back ground. And they all have the same tool as CONTEMPORARY DANCE. I've been hoping to create works by borrowing these brillant indivisualities. A performance group which talented dancers go crossed artstically and collaborate each other , this is what I aim.
Akiko Tomikawa
Artisctic Director
Akiko Tomikawa is a native Japanese, and a dancer ,choreographer, dance instructor.
She’d worked for Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet Company in Japan for 10 years ,which she had danced various classical repertories and contemporary works.
Then she moved to NY and had learned contemporary dance mainly. After graduate the visa program at formerly Dance New Amsterdam (present Gibney Dance), she obtained O1 visa to work as professional dance artist in US. During her NY living, she built her carrier as a contemporary/modern dancer , working with Jana Hicks, Diane McCarthy, Marijke Eliasberg, Heather McArdle, Oliver Steele, Laurie De Vito, and among others. She has been a company member of B3W performance group, Blueprintvivlations,The Next Stage Project among others and she toured to several sities in United States and some countries such as Netherlands, France, Sweden and Japan with the company or individually.
Her carrier as a choreographer started from 2009. Her first solo piece was selected by New Steps Choreography Series 2009 at Chen Dance Center in NYC.
Now she moved back to Japan and has been active to spread out the contemporary dance spirit to the world.
Collaborators of 2025
Mei Yamanaka
Joined from 2024.
Misuzu Hara
Joined from 2022.
Hirono Sezaki
Joined from 2024.
Saya Abe
Joined since company started.
Biography of Collaborators
Mei Yamanaka
Misuzu Hara
Hirono Sezaki
Saya Abe
Collaborators of 2022-24
Saya Abe
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