Yoko Ichino
Director of Professional Training


An internationally-acclaimed ballerina, Yoko Ichino was born in Los Angeles where she trained intensively with Mia Slavenska. In 1977 Ms. Ichino became the first American to win a medal at the prestigious Third International Ballet competition in Moscow where critics noted her technical mastery and purity of form. Following this triumphant performance, she joined American Ballet Theatre and danced opposite Rudolf Nureyev in Don Quixote. In 1982 she joined the National Ballet of Canada as a principal. Ms. Ichino has been an invited guest, dancing with The Joffrey Ballet; Stuttgart Ballet; Tokyo Ballet; Ballet de Monte Carlo; Australian Ballet, Sydney Ballet; Royal New Zealand Ballet and the German Opera Ballet. She has appeared as a guest artist with such partners as Fernando Bujones, David Nixon, Helgi Tomasson and Anthony Dowell.

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