Yukiko Shinozaki is a choreographer and a dancer.
She studied classical ballet in Tokyo from age 6 to 18. After high school she moved to the US to study contemporary dance and psychology at Portland State University. From 1993 to 1997 she lived in NYC where she presented her own work at venues including the Judson Church, St Mark’s Church and the Merce Cunningham Studio. She has collaborated as a dancer in productions by Meg Stuart, Yasmeen Godder, Raimund Hoghe, and many others. Since 1996 Shinozaki has been collaborating with Heine Avdal. Together they created more than 25 productions which all have been touring internationally. Shinozaki and Avdal established “fieldworks” in 2000.
 
Shinozaki’s work focuses on internal complexities and contradictions of the body. The process of transformation takes an important role in her movement vocabulary: through subtle shifts and manipulations, familiar actions slowly transform into an unfamiliar realm/landscape. She considers artistic collaborations as an important factor in her work and she consciously integrate coincidental elements that arrive in encounters with different artists and situations. She often works in an intuitive way, yet she is also fascinated by something beyond her imagination.