MONDAY
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Beg.

This class is recommended to all beginners, especially anyone with a ballet background who is interested in pursuing a musical theater career.

Introduction to Theater Dance

UMIKO NIIMI trained and performed with Momoko Tani Ballet Company in Tokyo, Japan. Her credits include Swan Lake and Giselle.

She received 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 USA as a student of Ballet Arts and studied with Fines Jhung, Jan Miller, William Burmann, Chris Chadman, Tony Stevens, Diana Lawrenson, David Marquez,.etc.

She joined the New York Theatre Ballet in1989 as a principal dancer. 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, etc. She enjoyed working with those choreographers and directors such as Ms. Diana Byer and teacher Ms. Sallie Wilson who is one of the great dancers from Anthony Tudor.

She also worked with Saeko Ichinohe Dance Co., Long Island Ballet, Anglo-America Ballet. etc. She 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 Mihale 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.