OKUDA KasumiSoloists

OKUDA Kasumi was born in Fukuoka prefecture. She trained under TANAKA Chikako at the TANAKA Chikako Junior Ballet and SHINOHARA Seiichi and SHIMOMURA Yurie at the SHIMOMURA Yurie Ballet Ensemble. Major awards include second prize in the Pas de Deux category at the All Japan Dance Competition, a semi-finalist at Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2007 and second prize in the senior category at the Kobe dance awards in 2009. She joined the National Ballet of Japan in the 2010 and was promoted to Soloist in 2014. She danced Fairy Autumn in Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, Twyla THARP's In the Upper Room, Pikkilia and 1st Variation in Don Quixote, the leading role in David BINTLEY's The Prince of the Pagodas and Aladdin.

OKUDA Kasumi

David BINTLEY: The Prince of the Pagodas (Princess Belle Sakura)

Repertoire with NBJ includes

  • Wayne EAGLING's productions: The Sleeping Beauty (Fairy Violente, Emerald), The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Louise, Chinese)
  • Alexei FADEYECHEV's production: Don Quixote (Pikilia, 1st Variation)
  • MAKI Asami's productions: Swan Lake (Pas de trois, Neapolitan Dance), The Nutcracker (Clara, Reed Fairies), La Bayadère (2nd Variation of Kingdom of the Shades)
  • Konstantin SERGEYEV's production: Giselle (Peasant pas de deux)
  • Frederick ASHTON: Cinderella (Fairy Autumn)
  • George BALANCHINE: Apollo (Polyhymnia)
  • David BINTLEY: The Prince of the Pagodas (Princess Belle Sakura), Aladdin (Princess Badr al-Budur, Rubies), Faster (Fighters)
  • Peter DARRELL: Tales of Hoffmann (Olympia)
  • Nacho DUATO: Duende
  • HIRAYAMA Motoko: Ag+G
  • Jessica LANG: Escaping the Weight of Darkness
  • Bronislava NIJINSKA: Les Noces (Villegers Soloist)
  • Twyla THARP: In the Upper Room