Iris trained in ballet and contemporary dance since the age of three, and in 2021 started to practice butoh in Tokyo with that late Nakajima Natsu, and now studies under internationally-acclaimed dancer Vangeline. Since 2021, her practice has shifted to incorporate butoh.
In Japan, she appeared in Nakajima Natsu’s Yume no yume, oku no oku, nokori no hi (April 2022), and performed a solo piece, ‘Mizu/ Water’ in butoh company Mutekisha’s Kokkyounaki Karada (July 2022). She is part of the performance art collective BEIMA in Oxford, who perform durational and site-specific work, and a member of the London Butoh Dance Company, whose most recent performance ‘iFlash: Anatomy Not Found’, interrogates human relationships to technology. Iris performed ‘Fruit of My Woman’ in Oxford, New York (Queer Butoh Festival 2025), and Belgium in 2025. Her current work ‘The Liberation of Hecate’, will tour in 2026.
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