Career
She joined the ABT Studio Company in September 2001, joined ABT's main company as an apprentice in 2002, and became a member of the corps de ballet in June 2002. Effective August 2007, she was promoted to the rank of soloist. She is the only Japanese soloist in ABT.
Her repertory with ABT includes: Gamzatti in La Bayadère, Blossom in Cinderella, Gulnare in Le Corsaire, Kitri, Amour and a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Zulma and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Clara in The Nutcracker Henrietta in Raymonda, the Fairies of Fervor and Joy in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois in Swan Lake, and the Waltz in Les Sylphides.
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