JOYCE S. LIM, from Malaysia, splits her time between Asia and USA. Her choreography has been presented internationally and in venues in New York such as Dance Theater Workshop, and Danspace Project, with funding from Robison Foundation, Nippon Foundation, and Asian Cultural Council, among others. She was introduced to Noh in 2004, while on an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowship to Japan. Since then her artistic life has shifted from contemporary dance to the many disciplines of Noh. She studied kotsuzumi and otsuzumi with the late Kama Mitsuo; and returns to Japan regularly to continue her training in taiko with Sakurai Hitoshi; and shimai and utai with Richard Emmert and Oshima Kinue. She played the kotsuzumi for the full noh plays of "Funabenkei" at NTP’s 15th anniversary, and Theater Nohgaku’s "Crazy Jane" in 2009 and 2010 respectively.