Synopsis

Title: She feeds her many hungry faces

Biography

Yoka is currently training in Butoh, trancedance, Grotowski, Suzuki and Bodyweather methods.  She graduated from VCA/Melbourne Univesity majoring in film  and theatre in 2000 and completed Solo Performance Artist course at Victoria University and presently in VU solo residency.  Her has also trained in dance and physical theatre with Tess de Quincy, Yumi Umiumare, Gretal Taylor and Alice Cummings.  Yoka now trains and continues to explore and investigate the authenticity in dance and performance with Tony Yap Company. 
Yoka has a background in film, theatre, script writing and visual arts.

She has a deep passion for elaborate old world and other-worldly aesthetics esapecially in fabrics and costumery. She has performed with Metamorphic Ritual Theatre for over 10 years in Australia and abroad. She performed both as a solo artist and in collaborated works in Australia, Scotland, England, Italy and the USA. 

Works with Metamorphic Ritual Theatre include: Loom of Lilla (2008 LaMama, Melbourne; Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland;  Modena, Tuscany, Palermo, Italy and Speaker Place in London); Oedipus, La Pendu (LaMama). Feast of Vallhala (Monsalvat, Melb) Three Fates (Melb Fringe Festival.  Her solos include: Wolf Woman (07), Lillith (08), Seal Skin (’09), The Bone Girl (08) and Babylon (04). 

With TYC she performed in Beyond Butoh, BB08 and Eulogy for the Living (Ballarat 2011).