| BIOGRAPHY OF SACHIYO ITO, Artistic Director
Ms. Ito has taught at major colleges in the United States since 1972 such as the Juilliard School and New York University. She has also taught and performed for the educational programs sponsored by Japan Society, Asia Society, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Council on the Arts in the states of Alaska, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, and in the City of New York. She has contributed articles to the International Encyclopedia of Dance, published by Oxford University Press. Extensive performance credits include: the American Dance Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Dublin Theatre Festival, Japan Society, Asia Society, the Bonn International Dance Workshop, the Smithsonian Institution, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and appearances on television including Ch.4, Ch.13, Ch.11, NY1, and at numerous universities and museums such as Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition, Sachiyo Ito choreographed Yeats' Trio at the Open Space, the original production of Three Irish Noh Plays in Ireland as well as the New York production at the Theatre of the Open Eye, And the Soul Shall Dance, Monkey Music at the LaMama Theatre, and the Off-Broadway production of Shogun Macbeth. She was the Kabuki consultant for the Off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures. Ms. Ito established Sachiyo Ito and Company in 1981 as a not for-profit educational organization and as a school for various Japanese dance forms; she also founded the New York Branch of Taka-ryu Hana-no Kai Okinawan Dance in Okinawa. The Company has offered the "Salon Series," which is an ongoing series of informative lecture-demonstrations and performances on the performing arts of Japan, for the past 5 years, 3 times a year. Ms. Ito has also conducted Haiku and Walking Meditation for the past 7 years at spiritual retreats including Dai Bosatsu Zendo in the Catskills, Livingston Manor, NY. Sachiyo Ito Sachiyo Ito & Company |
