Mamiko Usuda was born and raised in Ibaraki, Japan where she began dancing at an early age, traning at Takeo Hirata Modern Dance Academy under the direction of Yuka Hirata. She attended Point Park University, where she received a B.F.A with a Major in Dance.

While attending university, she worked with Metamorphosis Dance as a soloist under the direction of Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich during the summer of 2015 and 2016, in Mexico, Spain, and Italy.

In 2017, after she graduated university, she received training under Emanuel Gat, Sita Ostheimer, and Spenser Theberge at Nuova Officina della Danza in Italy.

In 2018, she continued her career in Japan and performed at the Tokyo 2020 Palarympic opening ceremony, choreographed by Kaiji Moriyama. In 2023, she toured nationally across Japan, again with Mr. Moriyama, to perform the piece “The Little Prince”. 

Throughout the year in 2024, she performed for Moving Forward Collective, Michiyaya Dance, Wild Dream and morgaine de leonardis.

Mamiko has also worked with Jiri Pokorny, Kenta Kojiri, Hiroaki Umeda, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Paul Julius, and Sjinji Nakamura, and continues to share her artistry as a freelance contemporary dancer. 

As a choreographer, her first individual work was awarded third place at the National Dance Competition of Japan in 2019, where she both choreographed and performed a solo piece.

Upon relocating her career to the United States in 2023, she choreographed a piece for three professors at Point Park University, contributing to the Inside Outside project at Pittsburgh Playhouse.

Subsequently, in August 2023 soon after making Jersey City, NJ her new home, she received Dance New Jersey Regrant Program. She has been setting her new piece in March 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia she choreographed a piece through Dance Canvas. Other noteworthy works include a piece at Smush Gallery, Jersey City Theatre Center and Art House Production, Jersey City.

This July Mamiko is presenting ‘‘The Body Remembers Lights’’ at CPR - Center for Performance Research, made possible by a grant she was awarded through ‘2025 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts’.

Mamiko Usuda is dedicated to sharing her artistry as a freelance contemporary dancer and choreographer, both nationally and internationally.