• From Gumma, Japan
• Trained at the Reiko Yamamoto Ballet Company
• Trained at the School of American Ballet
• 1990: Joined Royal Winnipeg
• Promoted to Principal Dancer
• 1997: Joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a Soloist
• 1998: Promoted to Principal with the PNB 

Performed as a Guest Artist at the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Melbourne Ballet Festival and with Dancers for Life in Vancouver, British Columbia

Awards and Honnours:

• 1986: Won first prize at the 14th Prix de Lausanne competition
• 1988: Won a bronze medal at the IBC in Varna, Bulgaria

• Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Began her ballet training at age 5 with local teachers
• Studied at Balletvera Bublitz at age 11
• 1996: Danced with Peter Boal as a guest artist of the school - encouraged her to come to NY to study at the SAB
• 1997-1998: Studied at the SAB, her tuition was apid by Alexandra Danilova
• 1999: Apprentice with NYCB
• 2000: Joined the Company as member of the CDB
• 2005: Promoted to Soloist
• later-2005: Joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as Soloist
• 2006: Promoted to Principal Dancer

Performed as a guest Artsit on the Vail INternational Dance Festival's "International Evenings od Dance" galas and at "the Dance Open" Gala in St Petersburg, Russia in April 2012

 
Awards and Prices

• 1999: Mae L Wien Award recipient
• 2001-2002: The Janice Levin Dancer Honoree 

• 1988: Entre à l'Ecole de danse de l'ODP
• 1994: engagée à 17 and dans le Corps de ballet
• 1999: Promue Coryphée
• 2001: Promue Sujet
• 2007: Promue Première Danseuse
• 2012: Actuellement dans le rôle de l'Amour dans Orphée et Eurydice

• Born in the Bronx, New York
• 1993: Began his studies at the School of American Ballet 
• Studied at the ABT Summer Program and The Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet
• July 2000: Invited to become an apprentice with NYCB
• July 2001: joined the Company as Member of the CDB
• March 2006: Promoted to Soloist
• October 2009: Promoted to Principal Dancer

Awards and Honnours:

• 2000: Mae L. Wien Award Recipient