PREMIERED: 2018

Length: 70 minutes with 10 minutes intermission

Yuki Tokuda, a professional ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and native of Japan who now is a Minnesotan, collaborates with other celebrated Japanese/Minnesotan artists to tell the story of how her love for dance transcends cultures and language barriers to bridge her two worlds.

Performers: 3 dancers, 3 student dancers, 1 pianist, 1 cellist and 1 vocalist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, a piano and a projector.

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PREMIERED: 2019

LENGTH: 60 minutes

We will take you on a journey to the mystical side of nature, featuring compositions by Chopin, Couperin, Dukas, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns.

The music will be transformed into motion by Tokuda’s original choreography, and together we will create a magical dance experience.

Performers: 5 dancers, 1 pianist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, and a piano.

PREMIERED: 2021

LENGTH: 30 minutes

Tokuda’s choreography to Bach’s Chaconne expresses that there is always a hope during darkness and after sorrow. Featuring music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Eugène Ysaÿe.

Performers: 6 dancers, 1 violinist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting instrument amplification.

*This program could be site-specific work.

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PREMIERED: 2022

LENGTH: 35 minutes

A unique collaboration of classical music and ballet to celebrate primavera (spring), bringing back life after the long winter with live performance. Featuring music by Rachmaninoff, Cassado, Liszt, Debussy and more.

Performers: 1 dancer, 1 pianist, 1 cellist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, and a piano.

*This program could be a site-specific work.

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PREMIERED: 2022

Length: 70 minutes with 10 minutes intermission

Iridescent Blue features some of the most technically difficult solo piano works ever written, which are reimagined and transformed into continuous movements, performed in complete synchronization with the music. The dance will be depict things that change - the color, shape, sound and even the audience, set to the music of Saint-Saëns, Liszt-Schubert, Somei Satoh, Ravel, and Gershwin.

Through the collaboration, Tokuda continues to develop a technique of bringing forth the original intentions of the composers to create unique artistic expression. The hope is to create a performance where the audience can experience Classical music and Ballet with new light and deeper understanding.

Performers: 1 dancer, 1 pianist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, and a piano.

PREMIERED: 2022

LENGTH: 40 minutes

Unique collaboration of classical music and ballet to celebrate verano (summer). Featuring music by: Pärt, de Falla, Kapustin, Mayuzumi and Rachmaninoff.

Performers: 2 dancers, 1 pianist, 1 cellist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, and a piano.

*This program could be site- specific work.

PREMIERED: 2022

LENGTH: 42 minutes

Choreographer Yuki Tokuda examines what it means to be a woman and an artist, and brings awareness to the rich history of women artists as well as active women artists of today. The program features women composers including Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, Amy Beach, Rebecca Clarke, Sofia Gubaidulina and Sayo Kosugi.

Performers: 3 dancers, 1 pianist, 1 violinist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, and a piano.

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PREMIERED: 2023

LENGTH: 60 minutes

Two pianos and two dancers. The dynamic program will feature two-piano works by Sergei Rachmaninov, Takashi Yoshimatsu, and John Adams.

Performers: 2 dancers, 2 pianist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, and 2 pianos.

PREMIERED: 2023

LENGTH: 40 minutes

Live dance and music performance created in collaboration with Finnish fiber artist Anita Jain.

The program is inspired by nature - cycles of life and folktales - and encompasses cultural crossroads of Finland, Japan and America. Featuring music by Selim Palmgren, Michio Mamiya, Kaija Saariaho, Kenneth Frazelle, Antonin Dvorak, Camille Saint-Saëns.

Performers: 2 dancers, 1 pianist, 1 cellist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, and a piano.

*This program could be site-specific work.

PREMIERED: 2023

LENGTH: 30 minutes

A ballet based in the Japanese folklore story, Yuki-Onna (The Snow Woman) , paired with Piano Sonata in B Minor by Franz Liszt.

Performers: 3 dancers, 2 kids dancers, 1 pianist.

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting, overhead pulley system for snow effect, and piano.

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PREMIERED: 2024

LENGTH: 12 minutes

A ballet based in the Japanese folklore story, The Legend of the Feathered Robe (羽衣伝説) music by Japanese composer, Asako Hirabayashi

Performers: 2 dancers, 1 pianist

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting and a piano.

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PREMIERED: 2024

LENGTH: 12 minutes

A ballet based in the Russian folklore story, music by Igor Stravinsky.

Performers: 2 dancers, 1 pianist

Tech: Side wings, theatrical lighting and a piano.