Photo by Joni Kabana

A native of Japan, Yuka Iino joined OBT from Reiko Yamamoto Ballet Company where she became a principal dancer in 1996. She is a graduate of the Reiko Yamamoto Ballet School and a recipient of both the 1998 Varna International Ballet Competition Gold Medal (Junior Division) and the 1995 Asian Pacific Ballet Competition Bronze Medal. Ms. Iino has had ballets created on her at OBT by Christopher Stowell, Kent Stowell and Yuri Possokhov. In August 2008, she performed the pas de deux from George Balanchine's Rubies at the Chicago Dancing Festival.

Since joining OBT, Ms. Iino has danced featured roles in:

Julia Adam’s

• Angelo (Wife)
• il nodo

George Balanchine’s

• Apollo (Polyhmnia)
• Divertimento No. 15 (Sixth Variation)
• The Four Temperaments (Sanguinic)
• The Nutcracker (The Sugarplum Fairy, Dew Drop, Lead Marzipan)
• Rubies
• Tarantella
• Who Cares? (Embraceable You, My One and Only)

Val Caniparoli’s

• Lambarena

Nicolo Fonte’s

• Bolero
• Left Unsaid

William Forsythe’s

• The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude

James Kudelka’s

• Almost Mozart (Trio, Solo)
• Hush (III)

Peter Martins’

• Ash

Trey McIntyre’s

• Just

Marius Petipa’s

• Don Quixote Pas de Deux

Yuri Possokhov’s

• Firebird
• La Valse (I, II)
• Raymonda (Seventh Variation)

Jerome Robbins’s

• The Cage (The Novice)
• In the Night (3rd Couple)

Christopher Stowell’s

• Adin
• Eyes On You (You Do Something to Me, Night and Day)
• The Impending Hour (I)
• Opus 50
• Pas De Deux Parisien
• Quick Time
• The Sleeping Beauty, Act III (Princess Aurora)
• Swan Lake (Odette/Odile)
• Zaïs

Kent Stowell’s

• Through Eden’s Gates (Fast, furious; Rag Infernal)

Helgi Tomasson’s

• Blue Rose (Backstage, Peggy’s Minute Rag, Russian Rag)

Christopher Wheeldon’s

• RUSH (Demi-Soloist)

Read Feature Articles about Yuka Iino

"Iino Enumerates Career"
Critical Dance
November 2007

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