Cay Izumi is a Japanese interdisciplinary performance artist, choreographer, and art director working between New York City and Japan.
Through movement, aerial performance, and spatial dramaturgy,
she creates immersive works where body, memory, and philosophy converge.

She is the founder and artistic director of Tokyo Dolores,
an experimental performance platform established in 2012.

Working across performance, choreography, aerial movement, visual design, and spatial dramaturgy,
Izumi creates immersive works that explore the body as an interface between memory, identity,
cultural inheritance, and human existence.
Rooted in Japanese philosophy and lived experience, her practice investigates the tension between discipline and freedom, tradition and transformation, individual truth and collective consciousness.

Over the past decade, she has conceived, directed, choreographed, and performed in more than 30 original productions across Asia, Europe, and North America, developing site-responsive and interdisciplinary works that integrate movement, video, sound, costume, architecture, and ritual elements.

Her artistic language is informed by both underground performance culture and contemporary stage practice, shaped by an early career in Japanese cinema and later expanded through international aerial and movement-based performance.

Currently based between New York City and Japan, Izumi continues to develop projects that connect philosophy, embodiment, and cross-cultural dialogue through performance, education, and collaborative creation.