Chico Katsube is a dance improviser and a teacher from Osaka, Japan. In 2000, she founded Contact Improvisation Group C.I.co. in Tokyo and has organized projects with Ray Chung, Daniel Lepkov and Michael Schumacher among other talented improvisation artists.

She has also taught workshops in many international festivals, and became the member of “I-Dance” since 2011, and is organizing i-Dance Japan from 2013.

In 2012, she moved her base from Tokyo to Kagoshima with Shoko Kashima. They started the activity with the focus on exploring and integrating Asian culture into improvisation, as well as to establish the art community in the countryside of Kagoshima.