Birthplace

Tokyo, Japan

Training

Hirose Kato Ballet School, Royal Ballet School

English National Ballet

Joined 2009, promoted to Soloist 2013, First Soloist 2014, Principal 2016, Lead Principal 2022

Repertoire

Lead roles include Sugar Plum Fairy in Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith’s Nutcracker; the title character in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle and Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda; Odette/Odile in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake; Clara/Sugar Plum Fairy in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker; Aurora and Lilac Fairy in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty; Medora and Gulnare in Anne-Marie Holmes’s Le Corsaire; Cinderella and Sister Clementine in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella; The Sylph in Andersen/ Bournonville’s La Sylphide; Flute and Pas de Trois in Serge Lifar’s Suite en blanc; Swanilda in Ronald Hynd’s Coppélia; plus Derek Deane’s Strictly Gershwin; Liam Scarlett’s No Man’s Land; Stina Quagebeur’s Take Five Blues; Harald Lander’s Etudes; George Balanchine’s Apollo; David Dawson’s Four Last Songs; William Forsythe’s Playlist (EP).