Masterpiece International Ballet Dance Competition 2019 Judge Kenichi Soki

Kenichi Soki – Japan

Laureate of the 16th International Ballet Competition – Varna 1994

Premier Dancer, choreographer

Artistic Director of SBS YOUTH BALLET

Head of Soki Ballet School Sendai Japan

Kenichi Soki has studied under various teachers including Mika Nemoto, Daniel Levans, Sergiu Stefanschi, Roy Tobias, Peter Breuer, Ross Streton, and David Howard since he was three years old.

After participating in performances sponsored by Juridical Foundation Japan Ballet Association, Kawanawa Prefectural Artistic Dance Association, and Tani Momoko Ballet Company, Soki successfully joined to Universal Ballet Company in 1986. Soki had set up the record as the youngest dancer to ever enter the Company, at the age of sixteen. He has performed on stages in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan with Evelyn Hart, Patrick Bissel, Jean Charles Jill. After graduating high school, Soki officially became a member of Universal Ballet Company. He has performed in various ballet pieces including George Balanchene’s Serenade, Allegro Brillante, Geogina Parkinson’s The Sleeping Beauty, Adrienne Dellas’s Paquita,The Nutcracler,David Lichine’sGraduation Ball, Luthana Boris’s Cakewalk, Roy Tobias’s La fille Mal Gardee, and Jack Carter’s La Traviata.

In 1990, Soki transferred to Hong Kong Ballet as a soloist and danced in Peter Darrel’s The Nutcracker, Petar Miller Ashmole’s Giselle, Jack Carter’s Three Dances to Japanese Music, George Balanchine’s Walse Fantasie, Square Dance and Choo San Goh’s Unknown Territory,Pas de Trois from Pastral Sketch.

From 1991, Soki has join Ballet des Salzburger Landestheater, Austria and performed as a soloist in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, and other European nations. In his five-year stay in Salzburger Landestheater, he has performed as the main dancer in Romeo & Juliet, Orpheus & Euridice,Le Cousaire as well as taking part in the stage of Opera,Operetta and Musical.

Soki came back to Japan in 1996 and in 1997, he had signed a contract with New National Theatre Ballet in Tokyo. He performed as a soloist in the company’s repertoire, which consisted The Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Theme & Variation, La Sylphide, Don Quixote etc.

In the same year, Soki opened Soki Ballet School. Along with the performances in New National Theatre Ballet, he has participated in shows of Japan Ballet Association Young Ballet Festival, Aoyama Ballet Festival, Takeuchi Hitomi Ballet Company, NBA Ballet Company, Inoue Ballet Company, Kobayashi Noriko Ballet Theatre.

In 2000, He moved to Sendai to put serious focus on training the new generation of ballet dancers and started his teaching career there.

In 2006, Soki presented Eine Kleine Nachtmusik at Juridical Foundation Japan Ballet Association’s 30th Anniversary National Joint Ballet Evening Gala at the New National Theatre Opera House, showing his great efforts in creative directions as well as teaching and training.

In 2012,he was selected as a international jury member for International Ballet Competition Varna.

Websites

Soki Ballet School

• http://www.sokiballet.jp/english/index.html

Soki Ballet School YouTube

• http://www.youtube.com/sokiballetschool

<Prize / Kenichi Soki>

• Committee Award of the 16th Varna International Ballet Competition
• Senior Division
• Finalist of the 6th International Dance Competition Paris
• Classical SeniorDivision
• Best TeacherAward of the 60th Tokyo Newspaper Dance Competition

Ballet Division

• Best Teacher Award of the 2nd & 6 th Japan Grand Prix
• Best Teacher Award of 1st & 3rd Ballet Competition for Youth in

Sendai

• Best Teacher Award of 10^th 11^th and 12^th All Japan Ballet Union
• Competition

<Prize /his students>

1 st place of Kobe National Dance Competition 2012

Silver Medal of Youth America Grand Prix 2012 New York Final

Bronze Medal of Youth America Grand Prix 2009 New York Final

1 st place of 2nd & 6 th Japan Grand Prix

1 st place of 1st & 3rd Ballet Competition for Youth in Sendai

1 st place of 10 ,11 and 12^th All Japan Ballet Union Competition

1 st place of All Japan Ballet Competition 2009

<Scholarship /his Students>

Royal Ballet School

Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington DC

Houston Ballet Academy

John Cranko Schule

Australian Ballet School

Princess Grace Ballet Academy Monaco

Rock School of Dance Education

ABT Summer Intensive New York

ABT Summer Intensive California

Washington School of Ballet

Southland Ballet Academy

<Translation English-Japanese Workshop at his school>

Ms.Leigh Rowles Head Teacher of Australian Ballet School

Ms.Deborah Hess Faculty member of Canada’s National Ballet School

Mr.Misha Tchoupakov Faculty member of Utah University

Ms.Lassisa Saveliev President of Youth America Grand Prix

Mr.Aaron Watkin Director of Dresden Semperoper Ballet

Mr.Jason Beechey Head School of Palucca Schule Dresden
Mr.Yannick Boquin Freelance Ballet Master

Mr.Luca Masala Head of Princess Grace Academy Monaco

Mr.Parrish Maynard Faculty of San Francisco Ballet School

<International Jury Member>

25^th International Ballet Competition Varna

4^th Asian Grand Prix Hong Kong

9^th Korea International Ballet Competition

<National Jury Member>

NBA National Ballet Competition

All Japan Ballet Union Competition

Japan Ballet Association Tohoku Competition

Japan Ballet Association Kyushu Competition

Tokyo City Ballet Competition

Classical Ballet Competition Kurume

Japan Ballet Competition in Tokyo

Japan Ballet Competition in Fukuona

Japan Ballet Competition in Nagoya

Japan Ballet Competition in Shiga

Japan Ballet Competition in Hyogo

Japan Ballet Competition in Takamatsu

Japan Ballet Competition in Hakusan

Japan Ballet Competition in Kobe

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