Born in Kyoto and grown up in France, Yumio Chanoki is a freelance dancer based in Lyon. Trained in ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance at the dance conservatory in Paris, after obtaining her certificate in choreographic studies in Jazz and her certificate in dance and music studies, she joined the Ballet Junior de Genève in 2020. During the two years at Ballet Genève, she performed in various works by choreographers such as Noa Zuk, Roy Assaf, Hofesh Shechter, Marcos Morau, Rachid Ouramdane, Barack Marshall, Olivier Dubois and Maud Lepladec. Following her interest in today’s world, she is now studying Ethnology, Sociology, and Psychology at the University of Toulouse. Having experienced such a variety of movement approaches, she found her own choreographic voice and created in 2021 the duo Laisse moi t’écouter based on the interaction between movement improvisation and vocalizations amplified by a looper machine.