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A San Francisco based theatre company Theatre of Yugen is delighted to welcome Miki Orihara, one of the last students of Martha Graham. She has also been a principal dancer of Martha Graham Company in NYC.
"Ms. Orihara was explicit, arguing for the timelessness of older works and their connections to present-day choreography and concerns."
NY Times on her recent Solo Concert in 2014
We would like to take this rare opportunity to present a number of Graham Technique Master Class lead by Ms. Orihara.
-Miki Orihara-
Miki Orihara, a principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company, began her training in Japan at an early age in traditional Fujima Japanese Dance. After graduating from Bunka Gakuin high school in Tokyo, she came to New York to study at the Joffrey Ballet School. Then received scholarships to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. In 2011, she earned BA in Dance from SUNY Empire State College.
In 1983 she became one of the original members of the Martha Graham Ensemble and thereafter shortly joined the Martha Graham Dance Company. She has performed with various other prominent companies and choreographers as well. These include Yuriko, Elisa Monte, Jean Erdman, Mariko Sanjo, Jun Kono(Japan), Buglisi/Foreman Dance, Twyla Tharp, Stephen Pier, Martha Clarke, Anne Bogart and SITI company, and Robert Wilson. In 2001, she was invited to dance at the New National Theater in Japan. In 2006, she was a guest artist with Pascal Rioult Dance Theater for their France Tour. On Broadway, Ms Orihara appeared in the role of "Eliza" and "Topsy" in " The King & I" directed by Christopher Renshaw, Choreographed by Jerome Robbins and Lar Lubovitch.
As a choreographer, she premiered her solo work/performance "Searching Dimensions" (1995) in New York. Her recent works are "Passage", "Serious Garden" and "End of Summer" . These works were well received at their openings in Japan. In 2001, Ms Orihara presented an 8 women piece "VOICE" in Nagoya, Japan followed in 2008 by "Stage".
Ms. Orihara assists master teacher and choreographer Yuriko in her Graham technique classes, reconstructions and choreography. She has also been a guest teacher at UCLA World Arts and Culture Department, Atlanta Ballet, State University of Florida, the Ailey School, Peridance, The Hartt School, Arts International in Moscow with Takako Asakawa, the New National Theater Ballet School in Tokyo, Les Etés de la Danse in Paris, Henny Jurriens Foundation in Amsterdam and numerous other workshops and schools throughout the world. She is currently on faculty at the Martha Graham School. As a Regissuer on Martha Graham's work, she has been setting works on world wide, include Diana Vashineva's "Dialogue" and Wendy Whelan of New York City Ballet.
Ms. Orihara served as a Movement designer for Jen Silverman's "Crane Story" directed by Katherine Kovner and a Casting Producer/Dance Director for mishmashMiki Orihara's music videos which will be released Spring/Summer 2014. Ms. Orihara is in process of making Martha Graham technique DVD, collaboration with Dance Spotlight and Martha Graham Center.
In 2010, She received a New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award for her contributions to dance.
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