Fumiyo Ikeda

In 1979 she moved to Europe and started studying at Mudra, the Brussels dance school that was founded by Maurice Béjart.

There she met Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, whom she joined when she founded her dance company Rosas.

First she did that together with Alain Platel and Benjamin Verdonck in Nine Finger (2007), which is based on the book Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala and shows the perversity of the war through the eyes of a child soldier.

[6][7] Together with the Japanese dancer Un Yamada, she created in 2014 the dance duet amness, with organ music by Johann Sebastian Bach being played by the saxophonists of the Bl!ndman ensemble.

[8] In the same year she also created the production Cross Grip with the Japanese dancers Llon Kawai, Ayaka Azechi, Kota Kihara and the percussionist Kuniko Kato.