Is a dancer, theatre performer, and choreographer originally from Kobe, Japan. Yukari began her ballet training with Shibata Ballet Studio and continued with Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet School where she joined their professional ballet company. After she moved to New York, Yukari completed the International Independent Study Program at The Ailey School. She has danced at Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre; a multimedia-contemporary dance company as a founding member since 2006. She has performed a wide range of works by choreographers such as Nikolai Fedorov, Dou Dou Huang, Ricky Jackson, Samar Haddad King, Kate Swan, Susan Tenney and Yuri Ng. She has appeared in various performances including international dance and theatre festivals, musical "Phantom" (Fleure) at Fireside Theatre and opera “Les Contes D’Hoffmann” at The Metropolitan Opera, to name a few. One of the music video she has choreographed; "white sea" has selected at Raindance Film Festival in 2014. Yukari also appears in commercials and music videos internationally. 

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Photography: Conrad Turner

 

Contemporary dance

Proud founding member of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, NY/Palestine
RudduR Dance, NY, USA

 

Opera

"Les Contes D’Hoffmann" at The Metropolitan Opera, NY, USA
"La Gioconda" at Kobe Bunka Hall, Japan

Off-Broadway

"Deadly She-wolf Assassin at Armageddon!" at La Mama (She-wolf understudy)

 

musical

"PHANTOM" at The Fireside Theatre, WI, USA (Fleure/Ensemble) 
"In The Heights" at White Plains Performing Arts Center, NY, USA (Featured dancer/Ensemble) 

 

Ballet

Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet, Japan

 

Dance & theatre festival Appearances

nuitblanche, Brussels, Belgium
​Theatre Der Welt Festival, Germany
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, NY, USA
Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, Palestine
Tunis Spring Festival, Tunisia
Seoul International Dance Festival, South Korea
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, MA, USA
Downtown Dance Festival, NY, USA
Dance Biennale Tokyo 2002, Japan

 

other appearance

Hi-Collar (Short movie - Starring role)
The Uncanny (Art project)
Yuka New York Yoga (Promotional video)​
Origins (Instagram promotional video)
​"Play Me, I Am Yours" - White Prism (Music video)
"white sea" - //from the white room. (Music video)
Orion Beer (TV Commercial)
Gold Crest (TV Commercial)
Feirstein School of Cinema (Web promotion)
Texstiles Yuh (Model)

 

Choreography

Dance/Theatre Project ENTERART
Art Project "The Uncanny"
TV/web Series "Man and Woman He Created Us"
Music Video "white sea" - //from the white room.
Video Art "Rise of Ego" - ARis
Musical "Annie Jr", "Lion King Jr", "Once On This Island Jr" - Polaris Productions, NY
Musical "Toki no Tobira" (Co-choreography) - Theatre Project Shizuoka, Japan
Dance Performance "Propositions" - ARis, NY

 

special skills

Dance: Contemporary, ​Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Aerial (Single Point Trapeze and Pole), West -African, Hip-hop, Tap, Partnering and Improvisation
Martial Arts: Japanese Sword Fighting
Sports: Swimming, Running, Yoga and Horseback Riding
​Language: Fluent Japanese