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Kayoko Sakoh-Profile
KAYOKO SAKOH is a native of Japan. She started her dancing career with Mihoko Yamada who is a pioneer of modern dance in Kagoshima, Japan where she won a “New Artistic Talent” award.
Kayoko had learned about modern dance from zero to performance through Ms. Yamada. She began to embody her expressions by choreographing and performing dance.
In New York, she studied modern and jazz dance with Ann Marie Forsythe, Miguel Godreau at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center,
Milton Myers and has also studied ballet with Dr. Alfredo Corvino (faculty member of the Julliard School for 45 years and Ballet Master to Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal).
Kayoko has performed with Kristin Jackson Dance, Chen & Dancers, Ernesta Corvino’s Dance Circle Company and others. Since October of 1993, she has been a dancer of the Rod Rodgers Dance Company (RRDC).
Working with the RRDC, Kayoko has pursued her own language of dance as an individual choreographer.
The pieces choreographed by her in New York have been performed at the Theater for New City,
The LaMaMa Theatre, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYU, Dance Space, HERE Arts Center, BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exchange), and Solar Powered Dance Festival. She choreographed a stage for jazz musician,
Leon Parker for his Central Park Summer Stage in 1999 and also appeared in Mr. Parker’s CD, “The Simple Life"as a vocalist.
Kayoko started to showing her works as Kayoko Sakoh Dance since 2005. Also she has her dance workshop in Japan to exchange and communicate
with local dancers through dance. In June of 2008, she had performances in Kagoshima, Japan with dancers from New York to introduce
New York arts scene to Japanese audience, she collaborated with local dancers, musicians and artists in a cultural exchange.
