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YOKO
TAIRA
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Yoko
Taira was born in Oviedo, where
she began her ballet studies
at the age of five. In 1985 she
moved to Madrid in order to study
with Luis Fuente, in whose group
she danced for two years in a
number of cities around Spain.
Later she worked with Marika
Besobrasoba, Lola de Ávila,
Carmen Roche, Paco Morales and
Igor Ivanov among others.
In
January 1988 she joined the Compañía
Nacional de Danza (then
known as the Ballet Lírico
Nacional) where she has
performed many roles in both
classical and neoclassical ballet.
From
1990, under the artistic direction
of Nacho Duato, Yoko Taira
has danced as a soloist and
lead ballerina in the majority
of her pieces as well as performing
work by other internationally
renowned choreographers such
as Jiri Kylián, Mats
Ek, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe,
Hans van Manen, and many others.
In
1989 she finished her studies
at the Real Conservatorio
de Música y Danza de
Madrid and in 1995 began
to teach contemporary dance
at the same school, where
she created two choreographed
pieces alongside her students.
Since
1996 she has combined her
work as a ballerina for the CND with
that of being Choreographic
Assistant to her Artistic
Director, Nacho Duato.
In
1999 and a year later in
2000 she created her first
two ballets for the Compañía
Nacional de Danza Workshop –Reconstrucciones and Kosamai,
whilst in 2001 and 2002,
she respectively produced Érase
una vez... and Ni
un Alma for the Compañía
Nacional de Danza 2.
In
2003 she created Nasciturus for
the Compañía
Nacional de Danza.
