Karin Kitaoka ❲Bonus Inside❳

"I am not blending East and West," she stated in a 2023 keynote at the Harvard Dance Center. "I am trying to find the movement that exists before geography is applied to a spine."

Whether she is leading a dancer through a 45-minute shift of a single shoulder blade or suspending a performer in cold water to study the tremor of hypothermia, Kitaoka is asking a terrifying question: If you strip away expression, identity, and music, is the body still interesting? karin kitaoka

"I realized I was learning how to demonstrate emotion, not inhabit it," Kitaoka said in a 2021 interview with Movement Research Journal . "I am not blending East and West," she