Sumire (Sue) Ishige was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from the high school program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2015 and graduated magna cum laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program in 2019. She has also attended the American Dance Festival and National Ballet School of Canada summer intensives, and has been a part of the Merce Cunningham Trust Workshop.  Sumire has performed with BARKIN/SELISSEN PROJECT, McKoy Dance Project, Boston Dance Theater, WHITE WAVE, Parsons Dance Company, and J Chen Project.