Yoshiko Chuma is a dancer and choreographer who arrived in New York in 1977 and founded her company The School of Hard Knocks in 1983. Chuma has presented four pieces at The Kitchen: "Pikkadon," and "I Left Her Behind You" (1983); "Suspicious Counterpoint" (1990); "Footprints of War" (1999). For more information, please visit http://www.yoshikochuma.org/