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Since co-founding Degenerate Art Ensemble in 1999, Haruko has produced a consistent stream of original and adventurous multi-genre work that combines physical theater, dance, visual art, digital innovation and live music. These pieces have ranged from small intimate performance works to large scale museum installations and work involving large casts and full orchestra. Haruko intimately collaborates with visual artists and is know for her close collaboration with fabric artists on elaborate art-costumes and sculptures for performance, photographic imagery and video portraits. Haruko was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography in 2012. In 2011 she was an artist in residence at director Robert Wilson's Watermill Center – a laboratory for performance and was invited and commissioned by Wilson to create an interpretation of his seminal work Einstein on the Beach at the Baryshnikov Center in NY in April of 2012. Other highlights for 2012 include a performance with Korean vocalist and dancer Dohee Lee at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and a performance in the Czech Republic with Czech rock legends Uz Jsme Doma. Her latest work Red Shoes, last presented at the Frye Art Museum, will be presented at the San Francisco International Arts Festival in 2013. Haruko’s work has been commissioned by Seattle’s On The Boards, Seattle Theater Group and presented by venues such as, L.A.’s REDCAT,TFF Festival in Germany , as well as a number of private foundations and have appeared in ten countries with the support of organizations such as,Paul G.Allen Foundation, National Performance network, Arts International and US Artists International.