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RIHO OKUNO

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Soloists

Riho Okuno was born in Hyogo, Japan. Her ballet training started at Sawako Murase Ballet School in Japan. She was awarded a scholarship in a Japanese competition and entered the Hungarian Dance Academy in 2010. Four years later, she joined The Grand Theatre in Lodz.

Career:

since 2014 – The Grand Theatre in Lodz

The most significant parts:

Juanita, Don Quixote (Ludwig Alois Minkus)
Waltz of the Flowers, The Nutcracker (Giorgio Madia/Peter I. Tchaikovsky)
The Rite of Spring (Martha Graham/Martha Graham)
Aegina, Spartacus (Kirill Simonov/Aram Chaczaturian)
Carmina Burana (Tamás Juranics/Carl Orff)
Diana, Grand Pas de Deux Diana and Actaeon, La Esmeralda
Mother, Silence (Ivan Cavallari/Ludwig van Beethoven)
Pasiphae, Hubris (Joshua Legge/Alder & Ash, Adrian Copeland)
Mandragora (Grzegorz Brożek/Karol Szymanowski)
Marina, Casanova (Gray Veredon/Antonio Vivaldi)

Awards:

2009: 3rd Prize & scholarship in Passion du Ballet a Kyoto Competition, Japan
2010: scholarship in Yokosuka International Ballet Competition, Japan
2012: 2nd Prize in Passion du Ballet a Kyoto Competition in Summer, Japan
2013: 1st Prize in Passion du Ballet a Kyoto Competition in Summer, Japan

Photo by Joanna Miklaszewska