Kasumi Adachi

Graduated from Japan Women’s College of Physical Education.
Studied at Keiko Shibanai Modern Dance Institute and under Fumie Kanai and Kozue Saito.
Studied in New York City with Trisha Brown Company as an intern through the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists.
Later became a member of Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks in NYC and Daghdha Dance Company in Ireland and participated in many performances in Sarajevo, Estonia and Russia and elsewhere.
Received 1st prize at the Tokyo Shimbun National Dance Competition and the grand prize at the Akita National Dance Competition.
Currently active as representative of the Pipeline Project and working with artists and musicians, based in the Tohoku region.

Kasumi Adachi is engaged in developing a local form of dance expression, creation and presentation within the Tohoku region （the northernmost part of Japan’s main island）, and is actively exploring the possibilities of creation and fusion of new dance and other arts through working with local communities and via collaborative efforts with artists of other disciplines. As a dancer, Kasumi Adachi aspires to build new lines of exchange from the country areas to the main cities and overseas, and then from the main cities and overseas back to the country areas.

To bring together local staff and citizen participants for the purpose of popularizing contemporary dance in the Akita area. To carry out projects and performances that help deepen understanding and facilitate a shared joy-significance of the imagination and the discovery of new expression through actual scenes where dance performances are created.