Studied
at the Sakaki Bara Dance School where she was drilled in folk dances,
ballet, and the subtleties of buyo or Japanese classical dance. She
was recommended by Anna Sokolow, in 1967, for a Fulbright Scholarship
to study in New York. Within two months of starting her studies at The
Juilliard School, Kei made her solo debut in The New Choreographers
Series at The Clark Center for the Performing Arts. She left Juilliard,
and made the rounds of Graham, Cunningham, Nikolais and even The American
Ballet Theater School. Since those early days Kei has received choreographic
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (annually since 1975),
The New York State Council on the Arts annually since 1976, The Creative
Artists Public Service Program, and an unsurpassed two Guggenheim Fellowships.
She has been commissioned by dance companies in America, Holland, Germany,
Israel, Belgium, Scotland, and Hong Kong. So
far her career has embraced 70 cities in the United States and 17 countries
abroad, appearing before intimate chamber audiences as well as vast
audiences of thousands in Central Park, New York, and Caesarea, Israel.
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