YURI NAGAOKA was born in Tokyo.Yuri began her ballet training at the age of ten,and at twelve she joined Hiraoka Shiga Dance Company to learn modern ballet. She took interests in various forms of performing arts and saw many dance and theater performances until she encountered Butoh in her late teens. Since then, she has been active in creating and showing her own performance pieces, both in Japan and overseas. From 1997, she performed and gave workshops in many countries such as South Korea, Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, England and Mexico.She joined the film 「Shureitachi」directed by Masaki Iwana as an actress in 2004. She organized Butoh Company Dance Medium with Seisaku(Butoh Dancer from Hakutohboh)and performed group pieces from 2005. In 2012, Yuri awarded a prize from Japan dance critics association by the piece “Kaeru-coming home”