DaBY Residence Artist
Dancer and choreographer.
In 1999, he won the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition. He was the first Japanese male to join the Netherlands Dance Theater I. Since leaving the company, he has made guest appearances with the Royal Swedish Ballet, Noism, Sylvie Guillem's "6000 Miles Away," and Kirlian Productions, while developing activities around his creative work, including the solo performance "Study for Self/portrait" (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005). In recent years, in addition to leading Opto with Rei Watanabe and Nagama Yuasa, she has been coaching the Japanese national figure skating team, curating OpenLab's "Dancers, Dance with Words", and serving as a lecturer and navigator at the Saitama Dance Laboratory (Saitama Arts Theatre, Sai-No-Kuni).
He is a DaBY Dance Evangelist from April 2020 to March 2010.
Residence artist at DaBY from April.