BIOGRAPHY
Rumiko Otsuka
She/Her
Dancer/Choreographer/Dance Teacher
Rumiko Otsuka was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. After she graduated from Arnhem Dans Academie in Holland in 2001, she started her professional career as a dancer in Norrdans(SE). She joined Skånes Dansteater(SE) in 2005; since 2009, she has worked as a freelance dancer. She worked for Recoil Dance Group/Tina Tarpgaard(DK), Skånes Dansteater(SE), Zappala Danza(IT), Khamlane Halsackda(SE/UK), Somatic Noise(SE/DK), Småland Musik och Teater(SE), Camilla Stage(DK), Memory Wax (SE) and more. She joined Nya Rörelsen in 2013 and started to produce dance productions of her own. Her background strongly influences the work. The focus is exploring Japanese culture and heritage and finding where this has a place within her work. She uses her dual experiences of living in Sweden and blending this with her history with Japan, creating a unique multi-cultural dance/theatre language that can really communicate with audiences.
Guest productions
• 2023 “Stor prick, liten prick’” by Memory Wax
• 2021 “Room X” Riksteatern turné
• 2020 “Monument to Work” by Alexandra Pirici
• 2019 “ABC’” by Memory Wax
• 2018 “Claroscuro’” by Memory Wax | “Barock o Dans” by Marie Brolin-Tani
• 2017 “Yellow Card” Dansnät Sverige national tour by Khamlane Halsackda | “I Skuggans Land” by Memory Wax
• 2016 “Golddiggers Under The Sun” by Camilla Stage (DK) | “Doctor” by Khamlane Halsackda | “Doris. Do or Don” by Maria Naidu
• 2013 “Stimulation Overload” by Kirstine Ilum / Somatic Noise
• 2012 “Living Room” by Tina Tarpgaard / Recoil performance group (DK) | “Yellow Card” by Khamlane Halsackda
• 2011 “Odisseo” by Roberto Zappala / Compagnia Zappla Danza (IT) | “Who let the dog out?” by Lidia Wos / Skånes Dansteater
• 2010 “Fuck You Buddy” by Tina Tarpgaard / Recoil performance group (DK)
• 2009 “Black Water” by Jorma Uotinen & Pontus Lidberg / Skånes dans teater
Professional engagements
2005-2008 Skånes dans teater (dir. Marie Brolin-Tani, Sweden)
Vilpi Pahkinen, Marie Brolin-Tani, Didy Veldman, Orjan Andersson, Per
Jonsson, Angelin Preljocaj
2001-2005 Norrdans (dir. Jeanne Yasko, Sweden)
Rui Horta, Uri Ivgi, Ted Stoffer, Jeanne Yasko, Hanna Gillgren, Stephen
Petronio, Roberto Zappara, Itzik Galili
Own Choreographic work
• 2020 “Death and life of Mr. O” collaboration with Kunihiko Matsuo Premiere in Inkonst, Malmö
• 2020 “One Moment” Helsingborg passage festival
• 2019 “Dance Safari” collaboration work with Nya Rörelsen Premiere in Inkonst, Malmö
• 2018 “Lycka” collaboration with Nidia Martínez Barbieri Premiere in Karavan, Malmö
• 2015 “Hej då Campanella” collaboration with Kunihiko Matsuo & Junji Koyanagi Premiere in Inkonst, Malmö
• 2013 “Non Blondes” collaboration work with Rörelsen Premiere in Inkonst, Malmö
• 2012 “Milky Way Rail Road” Part of the performance “Smak på dans” in Konsthallen, Malmö
• 2010 “Day Dream” Premiere in Tokyo, Japan
2018 Establish RUM I DANS ideell förening in Malmö
Teaching work
Danscentrum Syd: open classes for professional dancers (Modern/ contemporary dance)
Skånesdansteater: morning training for company’s dancers (modern/ contemporary dance)
Studio no. 1, Malmö: lessons for amateur dancers, children&youth (ballet)
Vuxenskolan Lund, Style dance studio: lessons for amateurs dancers, adults. (contemporary jazz, ballet and modern)
Yuka Hiramuki ballet studio, Tokyo: lessons and choreography workshops for children&youth.
GF Idrott konståkning, Landskrona: Dance training for figure skaters, children & youth.
Training
1998-2001 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem Dans academie (The Netherlands)
1995-1998 Classic ballet training in “Tokyo City Ballet” company, Tokyo