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Kaori Ito (FR/JP)
Born in 1979, Kaori Ito has studied Classical Ballet under Takagi Syuntoku since she was five years old in Tokyo. At the age of eighteen, she started her profession as a dancer and choreographer and was awarded by Ryouiti Enomoto "best young dancer and choreographer performing a solo" at the ST spot, Yokohama in 1998.
Upon studying at Purchase College, State University of New York, she learned Graham, Cunningham, Limon, and Horton techniques. In 2002, she received a Yokohama Cultural Foundation Award for choreographing and performing a solo in "Yokohama Dance Collection".
In 2004, she received a "National Conference Award" for the choreography and performance of a duet in "Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Deni" (France) and a scholarship from the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists and went to New York to study at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.
During her stay in New York, she has choreographed and danced at Joyce Soho Presents, and had a residency at Queens Museum of Art.
Between 2003 and 2005, she danced a main role for Philippe Découflé "IRIS". In 2005, she joined the Ballet Preljocaj (CCN de Aix-en-Provence) with Angelin Preljocaj for 4 seasons. In 2006, she worked with James Thiérrée (The grand son of Chalie Chaplin) for "Good Bye Umbrella" and with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as his assistant for the film "Le bruit des gens autour" with Lea Drucker and choreographed for Clemence Poesy (Harry Potter) for the future film "Sans Moi", directed by Olivier Panchot and showed her film work at Centre Pompidou, film festivals in the US and Spain.
In 2008, she started her own production "Noctiluque". In 2009, she was a sololist in "The house of sleeping beauty" by Guy Cassiers with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. In the same year, she presented "SOLOS" at National Theater of Marseille and in Japan, "Island of no memories" and receive the 1st prize for "(Re)connaissance" at the national competition for the choreographers. She is now engaged in Alain Platel's Ballets C. de la B. for "Out of Context". She was chosen as one of the artist from the programme EDN (European Dance Network) to create her own works.
In 2011, she is working with Denis Podalydes on "Cas de Jackyll" acting Mister Hyde and collaborates with Aurélien Bory to create her solo work.
Upon studying at Purchase College, State University of New York, she learned Graham, Cunningham, Limon, and Horton techniques. In 2002, she received a Yokohama Cultural Foundation Award for choreographing and performing a solo in "Yokohama Dance Collection".
In 2004, she received a "National Conference Award" for the choreography and performance of a duet in "Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Deni" (France) and a scholarship from the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists and went to New York to study at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.
During her stay in New York, she has choreographed and danced at Joyce Soho Presents, and had a residency at Queens Museum of Art.
Between 2003 and 2005, she danced a main role for Philippe Découflé "IRIS". In 2005, she joined the Ballet Preljocaj (CCN de Aix-en-Provence) with Angelin Preljocaj for 4 seasons. In 2006, she worked with James Thiérrée (The grand son of Chalie Chaplin) for "Good Bye Umbrella" and with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as his assistant for the film "Le bruit des gens autour" with Lea Drucker and choreographed for Clemence Poesy (Harry Potter) for the future film "Sans Moi", directed by Olivier Panchot and showed her film work at Centre Pompidou, film festivals in the US and Spain.
In 2008, she started her own production "Noctiluque". In 2009, she was a sololist in "The house of sleeping beauty" by Guy Cassiers with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. In the same year, she presented "SOLOS" at National Theater of Marseille and in Japan, "Island of no memories" and receive the 1st prize for "(Re)connaissance" at the national competition for the choreographers. She is now engaged in Alain Platel's Ballets C. de la B. for "Out of Context". She was chosen as one of the artist from the programme EDN (European Dance Network) to create her own works.
In 2011, she is working with Denis Podalydes on "Cas de Jackyll" acting Mister Hyde and collaborates with Aurélien Bory to create her solo work.
Photo: Kaori Ito © Piotr Redinski
