Is a dancer, theatre performer, puppeteer, and the director/choreographer of a dance theatre project ENTERART 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. She also appears in commercials and music videos internationally. ​One of the music video she has choreographed; "white sea" has selected at Raindance Film Festival in 2014. Yukari recently co-directed and choreographed a performance at the renewal opening ceremony of the most well-known and traffic-filled plaza in Kobe, Japan. Yukari performs as a puppeteer at Walk with Amal project, which is a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child who travels worldwide as a global symbol of human rights.​

 

Contemporary dance

Director/Choreographer/Performer at ENTERART, Kobe, Japan
​Proud founding member of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, NY/Palestine
​RudduR Dance, NY, USA

 

Puppeteer

Walk with Amal, Worldwide

 

musical

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

THEATRE / Off-Broadway

"ray gun say0nara" at New Ohio Theatre, NY, USA (Choreographer/Dancer/Actor)
​"Deadly She-wolf Assassin at Armageddon!" at La Mama, NY, USA (She-wolf understudy)

Opera

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

 

Ballet

Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet, Kobe, 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

 

Choreography

Opening Dance Performance at Sankita Amore Plaza in Kobe, JAPAN
Dance/Theatre Project ENTERART "Give Me Two More Cherried, Please.", "CASE", "ART D_Drive"
​Theatre "ray gun say0nara"
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

 

Music video

//from the white room. - white sea
The Peach Kings​ - Without You
White Prism - Play Me, I Am Yours

 

Film

3 x 13 (Featured performer)
​Hi-Collar (Starring role)

 

Commercial

IQOS (Promotional Photo and video)
Yuka New York Yoga (Promotional video)​
Origins (Promotional video)
Orion Beer (TV Commercial)
Gold Crest (TV Commercial)
Feirstein School of Cinema (Web promotion)
Texstiles Yuh (Model)

 

other

ENTERART おおさかゆかりの RADIO NEW YORK - Host at an internet radio RadiCro
The Uncanny - Multimedia Art project
ARis - Rise of Ego - Multimedia Art project
"PARADOXXXX" - Photography Installation Art by Tokio Kuniyoshi exhibited at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

 

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