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Yoko Ichino
Ballet Mistress
Born: Los Angeles.
Trained: Trained with Mia Slavenska in Los
Angeles.
Previous Companies: American Ballet Theatre,
National Ballet of Canada.
Guest performances: Joffrey Ballet, Stuttgart
Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, Ballet de Monte Carlo, Australian Ballet,
Sydney Ballet, Royal Ballet New Zealand, the Deutsche Oper
Berlin Ballet, Bayerishes Staats Oper Ballet Munich and Birmingham
Royal Ballet.
Career Highlights: Becoming the first American
and American Woman to win a medal at the prestigious Third
International Ballet Competition in Moscow in 1977. Dancing
opposite such artists as Rudolph Nureyev, Helgi Tomasson,
Antony Dowell and Fernando Bujones.
Personal: Yoko is married to Artistic Director
David Nixon. She was Director of the Professional Training
Programme at BalletMet (1996 – 2001), has been invited
to be a guest teacher in schools and companies around the
world and is delighted to be working with Northern Ballet
Theatre whilst continuing her successful international teaching
career.
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