TANSIK

Chizu Kimura

Born in Japan in 1981, and started dancing at the age of five.
Trained at Legat School of Dance and London Studio Centre in U.K
before joining the Vienna Festival Ballet in London in 2002.
Moved to Berlin in 2005 and has been working as a freelance dancer,
worked with Trisha Brown,Sebastian Eilers, Micheal Rooney,
Bettina Owczarek,Bianca Martin, and in some commercial works
such as "Sony Ericsson" and "JELL-O".
She is also an original member of U.T.P in Tokyo.
Since 2008, she started working on her own projects.
Her first piece "waver" was premiered in 10.2009 at ACUDtheater in Berlin,
in 02.2001 it was presented again at theaterforum kreuzberg in Berlin.
From December 2009,she is giving classical training for advanced to
professional levels and modern/contemporary training for beginners in Berlin.

Hoshiko Yamane

Graduated from Aich Prafecture University of Art and Music with the Master of Fine Art
for the violin before moving to Berlin to study under Prof. Heinz Schunk.
In 2007, she was admitted to the University of Music and Theater in Rostock,
where she studies for Diploma in the violin under Prof. Sylvio Krause.
As a player, she’s actively performing with people from different area,
such as an improvisational collaboration with a calligrapher,
jazz sessions with various musicians and DJs, as well as playing in galleries and theaters
as a soloist.
Not only as a player, she took part in a play "eine Japanerin trfft eine Japanerin" as an actor.
　 In TANSIK, she composes the music for its production,and pursuing the characteristic music
with physical expression.