Mio Ishikawa is a Tokyo-raised Japanese performer, choreographer, and creative collaborator based in New York City.
A graduate of The Juilliard School (BFA 2019), Ishikawa has performed several roles in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC and a large-scale immersive production Life and Trust. Since 2022, she has danced with Sidra Bell Dance New York. Ishikawa has worked with a wide range of renowned choreographers across stage and screen productions, including Marla Phelan, Stefanie Batten Bland, Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber, Michelle Dorrance, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Amy J. Gardner, and Kyle Abraham.
As a choreographer, Ishikawa’s latest piece “forms with dialogs” premiered at The MoMA in NYC in 2025. She is a 2023–2024 recipient of the Center for Ballet and the Arts–Juilliard fellowship and CBA joint fellowship with Chelsea Factory for 2024–2025. Additionally, Ishikawa regularly collaborates on projects across the artistic mediums. Currently she is developing a new work “Vestage” in collaboration with artist and director Kevin Peter He that will premiere in May 2026 in NYC. She is the Artistic Associate Director of a company BODYSONNET (2019–present). In 2025 Ishikawa co-founded Fabulosa!, a digital platform for creating and sharing site-sympathetic dance films and the process.
