Born in Mie Prefecture in 1987. Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of the Arts), Department of Visual and Performing Arts. She began learning classical and modern ballet at the age of three. She works as a director and dancer based in Kyoto. In each work, she confronts herself and others, and explores the possibilities of “dance by using the stage structure to create fiction out of the events that occur there. Since 2016, she has presided over “akakilike, an organization consisting of just her and technical staff, with the aim of involving actors and staff in productions on an equal footing. She is a Saison Fellow I of the Saison Foundation. Major works by akakilike include "Family Portrait" , a representative work of the early period of akakilike which premiered in 2016 and has been performed several times, "Sabaku", which premiered in 2017 and performed again in 2022. “Nice to Meet You, Good Day, Who Am I Today?, which premiered in 2018 and was created together with residents of the Higashi Kujo area of Kyoto. “Like the summer sea glittering with so many fun things that is a waste to spend time sleeping, like a green garden flooded with sunlight, like a sky spreading to infinity, so clear and blue as to drive you crazy, which premiered in 2019 and was created together with members of Kyoto DARC, a drug addiction rehabilitation center. Kurata's individual activities include, “I Can/Cant See You From Here Now with workers in the Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho areas of Tokyo, which is said to account for 25% of Japan's GDP (2022 / Presented by DaiMaruYuuSDGs ACT5 Executive committee, bench Co.) and Midori Kurata × Norimizu Ameya “Five-Minute walk from YouTube Hot Springs Station, Higashi Kujo, Shinjuku-ku, Mie Prefecture (2021 /Presented by The Japan Foundation (JF), Planning and Produced by precog co.,LTD.).