Yumiko Takeshima

Yumiko Takeshima was born in Asahikawa, Japan, and studied ballet with Miharu Ishikawa and the San Francisco Ballet. She was a solo dancer with Universal Ballet, Alberta Ballet, Feld Ballet NY, Dutch National Ballet and the Dresden Semperoper Ballet. Yumiko Takeshima was awarded the gold medal at the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition in 1996. In 2002, she founded her own dancewear company YUMIKO. Her dancewear was also used in the 2010 film Black Swan, among others. Yumiko Takeshima designs costumes for choreographers such as Jorma Elo, David Dawson, William Forsythe and Alexei Ratmansky.