Guest Teachers
Hitomi Yoshimura
Hitomi has performed throughout the world. She was a principal
dancer in a NASDAQ TV Commercial, a principal adagio dancer in
Las Vegas, and a lead dancer for Costa Cruise Lines.
She assistedMiguel Godreau’s class. In the USA, she instructed ballet lessons at AS Ballet NY, Arias Dance NYC, New Dance Group Arts Center. Worked with choreographers Donald Mckyle, Billy Wilson, Carmen de Lavallade, Lisa de Rivera, Luis Villanueva, Kazuko Hirabayashi. She’s been offering workshops in Tokyo and
multiple prefectures in Japan for 25 years.
In addition to providing private classes in NYC.
She is always inspiring others.
Yumiko Niimi
YUMIKO NIIMI trained and performed with Momoko Tani Ballet Company in Tokyo, Japan and received a BFA from Bunka University. While an undergraduate, she had a chance to study traditional Japanese play and dance called “yougen” from: Mansaku Nomura and Yukio Ishida. She came to the US as a student of Ballet Arts NYC and studied with Fines Jhung, Jan Miller, William Burmann, Chris Chadman, Tony Stevens, Diana Lawrenson, David Marquez and other notables of the NYC dance scene. She joined the New York Theatre Ballet as a principal dancer in 1989 and her credits include as Clara in The Nutcracker choreographed by Keith Michael, Laughing Matter by Jim Sutton, The Phantom of the Opera by James Waring, Cinderella by Donald Mahler. She worked with choreographers and directors such as Ms. Diana Byer and Ms. Sallie Wilson, one of the great Anthony Tudor dancers, and Gemze De Lappe - America’s leading interpreter of DeMillle Repetory. She also worked with Saeko Ichinohe Dance Co., Long Island Ballet, Anglo-America Ballet. etc. Yumiko choreographed A Story of Three Women for Harmonia Opera Co. at Alice Tully Hall in New York. Her Musical credits include The King and I as Eliza choreographed by Jerome Robbins adapted by Gemze de Lappe, directed by Paul Blake. A Chorus Line as Connie Wong, choreographed by Michael Bennett recreated by Troy Garza, VITA by Harold Prince/Larry Fuller reproduced by Kenneth W. Urmston. National tour of IGI The King and I etc, America Roots with Dance Machine International.