Dates:
Tue 24 Feb 2026 12:30pm
Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Age: 16+
Tickets: £0.00
About
Join Yukiko Masui, and Dance City’s creative team for an informal lunch in the Seven Bridges Café. Yukiko is the recipient of this years Dance City and Gillian Dickinson Trust Commission. The commissioned production Ronin will be previewed at Dance City on 13th March 2026.
This This is a fantastic opportunity for professional dance artists or students of dance and performance to meet Yukiko, ask questions and gain unique insight across a lovely lunch.
Artists can have further dedicated time with either Anand or Graeme to discuss anything in more detail.
Each Artists Lunch has is limited to 10 guests so booking is essential.
If you are unable to attend the artist lunch but would like an informal meeting with Dance City’s creative team, then please get in touch via Graeme.thompson@dancecity.co.uk
About Yukiko Masui
Yukiko Masui is a Tokyo-born, London-based choreographer and movement director. She is a recipient of the Choreography Award from DanceXchange and the Akram Khan Mentoring Award from Sky Arts, and is currently a Work Place Artist at The Place.
Her recent theatre and musical choreography credits include Jekyll and Hyde (Umeda Arts Theatre, Tokyo&Osaka), Miss Julie(New Earth Theatre), Toy Show The Musical (RTE, Dublin Convention Centre), Say Yes to Tess (Leeds Playhouse), Guy: A New Musical (The Bunker), and A Little Night Music(Storyhouse). She has also worked on Othello (R&D) at Shakespeare’s Globe, produced by New Earth Theatre.
In the world of contemporary dance, Masui’s choreography credits include SAY Something(National Dance Company Wales), SAY:AF (Dance Umbrella), The Night Is Darkest Just Before the Dawn (National Youth Dance Wales at Sadler’s Wells), 153’ 8s (Emergence Dance Company), Femme Spreading (Norrdans), and / (The Place & HKAPA in HK). Her own creations — including Unbox, It Takes Two Too, 33, Falling Family, and RONiN 0— have been performed internationally, touring to venues such as The Place, Korzo, Norrlands Opera, Birmingham Hippodrome and more. Her work has been praised by The Guardian’s Sanjoy Roy as creating “performances that make you sit up and pay unwavering attention.”
As a performer, Masui has appeared with Agudo Dance Company, Cathy Waller Company,Rhiannon Faith and TRIBE, as well as in projects for Sadler’s Wells, The Barbican, and Curve Theatre. She also served as Dance Captain for the Commonwealth Opening Ceremony. Her commercial and screen credits include work for The Marvels (Marvel Studios), Nike, Coldplay, So You Think You Can Dance (UK), and Ministry of Sound.
Masui is the co-founder of SAY, a dynamic performance duo whose work the album has toured internationally. SAY has collaborated with director Jamie Lloyd as movement directors on Romeo & Juliet (West End, starring Tom Holland) and The Effect (National Theatre and The Shed, New York).
This This is a fantastic opportunity for professional dance artists or students of dance and performance to meet Yukiko, ask questions and gain unique insight across a lovely lunch.
Artists can have further dedicated time with either Anand or Graeme to discuss anything in more detail.
Each Artists Lunch has is limited to 10 guests so booking is essential.
If you are unable to attend the artist lunch but would like an informal meeting with Dance City’s creative team, then please get in touch via Graeme.thompson@dancecity.co.uk
About Yukiko Masui
Yukiko Masui is a Tokyo-born, London-based choreographer and movement director. She is a recipient of the Choreography Award from DanceXchange and the Akram Khan Mentoring Award from Sky Arts, and is currently a Work Place Artist at The Place.
Her recent theatre and musical choreography credits include Jekyll and Hyde (Umeda Arts Theatre, Tokyo&Osaka), Miss Julie(New Earth Theatre), Toy Show The Musical (RTE, Dublin Convention Centre), Say Yes to Tess (Leeds Playhouse), Guy: A New Musical (The Bunker), and A Little Night Music(Storyhouse). She has also worked on Othello (R&D) at Shakespeare’s Globe, produced by New Earth Theatre.
In the world of contemporary dance, Masui’s choreography credits include SAY Something(National Dance Company Wales), SAY:AF (Dance Umbrella), The Night Is Darkest Just Before the Dawn (National Youth Dance Wales at Sadler’s Wells), 153’ 8s (Emergence Dance Company), Femme Spreading (Norrdans), and / (The Place & HKAPA in HK). Her own creations — including Unbox, It Takes Two Too, 33, Falling Family, and RONiN 0— have been performed internationally, touring to venues such as The Place, Korzo, Norrlands Opera, Birmingham Hippodrome and more. Her work has been praised by The Guardian’s Sanjoy Roy as creating “performances that make you sit up and pay unwavering attention.”
As a performer, Masui has appeared with Agudo Dance Company, Cathy Waller Company,Rhiannon Faith and TRIBE, as well as in projects for Sadler’s Wells, The Barbican, and Curve Theatre. She also served as Dance Captain for the Commonwealth Opening Ceremony. Her commercial and screen credits include work for The Marvels (Marvel Studios), Nike, Coldplay, So You Think You Can Dance (UK), and Ministry of Sound.
Masui is the co-founder of SAY, a dynamic performance duo whose work the album has toured internationally. SAY has collaborated with director Jamie Lloyd as movement directors on Romeo & Juliet (West End, starring Tom Holland) and The Effect (National Theatre and The Shed, New York).
