<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMT, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; border-collapse: separate; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Costume designer, Mioko Mochizuki is from Japan via Holland, Hong Kong. She has a BFA in Fashion Design from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Her senior thesis collection "Untangling" was showcased at Felissimo Design House, NY in 2003. "Line that folds and unfolds", a series of costumes made of white fabric and red kimono lining, was used in a company So Go No's butoh performance by Tanya Calamoneri, in the piece "Two by Two" in The Outlet Dance Project 2006. It was also used in Maxi Geil & Playcolt's music video "Making Love in the Sunshine," directed by Guy Richards Smit, which was showcased at the IFC in 2007. She also costumed "HATCH" (2007) "Art of Memory" (2009) "1000 cracks" (2009) for company So Go No in collaboration with Tanya Calamoneri. Mioko sees garments as a way of encasing the body in shape, time, and mood—elevating the body's facility as an instrument of expression.</font></span><br>