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Yukari Osaka

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Yukari Osaka is a dancer, theatre performer, and the director/choreographer of a dance theatre project ENTERART originally from Kobe, Japan. Yukari began her ballet training with Shibata Ballet Studio and continued with Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet School where she joined their professional ballet company. After she moved to New York, Yukari completed the International Independent Study Program at The Ailey School. She has danced at Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre; a multimedia-contemporary dance company as a founding member since 2006. She has performed a wide range of works by choreographers such as Nikolai Fedorov, Dou Dou Huang, Ricky Jackson, Samar Haddad King, Kate Swan, Susan Tenney and Yuri Ng. She has appeared in various performances including international dance and theatre festivals, musical “Phantom” (Fleure) at Fireside Theatre and opera “Les Contes D’Hoffmann” at The Metropolitan Opera, to name a few. She also appears in commercials and music videos internationally. One of the music videos she has choreographed; “white sea” was selected at Raindance Film Festival in 2014. Yukari recently co-directed and choreographed a performance at the renewal opening ceremony of the most well-known and traffic-filled plaza in Kobe, Japan.