Shoko Kashima is a dance artist, photographer. She collaborated with Michael Schumacher, Katie Duck, Ray Chung, Natanja den Boeft and other many artists. She awarded a scholarship from the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists to study dance in New York.  Shoko began working with Chico Katsube as a member – and co-director – of Contact Improvisation Group C.I.co. since 2005.

In 2012, she moved from Tokyo to Kagoshima with Chico, and started activities of cultivate arts community in sparsely populated area. She has been organizing “i-Dance Japan” which is the International Contact Improvisation Festival in Kagoshima from 2013.