Izumi Ashizawa is a Japanese-born-raised-trained performance art practitioner and visual artist. Specialized in cross-cultural trans-media performance art, she reframes the Japanese traditional codes and places them in a different context to generate a whole new meaning. She utilizes physical story-telling and unconventional puppetry and object animation. Her past commissioned collaborative projects have taken place in the U.S.A., Japan, the U.K., Canada, the First Nation in Quebec, Turkey, Iran, Norway, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Australia, the Cayman Islands, Greece, Cyprus, Peru, and Greenland. Ashizawa holds a MFA from Yale School of Drama.