Mio Ishikawa (she/her) is a Japanese performer, choreographer, and creative collaborator based in New York City. Her work lives at the intersection of contemporary dance, visual art, and immersive theatre.
A graduate of the Juilliard School (BFA 2019), Ishikawa had the opportunity to perform works by Roy Assaf, Twlya Tharp and Alejandron Cerrudo. As a freelance performer, she has performed several roles in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, including Lady Macbeth, and Life and Trust, a large-scale immersive production. Since 2022, she has danced with Sidra Bell Dance New York, through which she has led choreographic workshops at NYU and Harvard. Ishikawa has worked with a wide range of renowned choreographers across stage and screen productions, including Kyle Abraham, Ivan Perez, Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber, Michelle Dorrance, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Kelly Bartnik, Stefanie Batten Bland, and Amy J. Gardner.
As a choreographer, Ishikawa explores the forms found in between human and natural elements, the rituals built within dance and the relationship between movement and the urban landscape. Her piece "forms with dialogs" was premiered at The MoMA in Manhattan, NY in November 2025 at Artist Party : Ruth Asawa. She is a BAC 2026 residency recipient, 2023-2024 recipient of the Center for Ballet and the Arts-Juilliard fellowship and 2024-2025 CBA joint fellowship with Chelsea Factory. Additionally, Ishikawa regularly collaborates on projects across the artistic mediums. The newest piece "Vestige", a collaboration of technology and dance for which she serves as a performer and a choreographer showcased in May 2026 at Lincoln Center, New York City and is going to premiere at Southbank in London in September 2026.
She is the Artistic Associate Director of a company BODYSONNET (2019-), where she produces dance works and dance intensives that center the local community and surrounding ecosystem. In 2025, Ishikawa co-founded Fabulosa!, a digital platform for creating and sharing site-sympathetic dance films and the process. She will also complete her Meisner acting training under Laura Henry in 2026 November in hope of expanding her artistic vocabulary.
