Tamiyo kusakari biography channel
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1990
Invited by the Soviet Ministry of Culture to perform with the Maki Asami Ballet group at performances at Danchenko Theatre (Moscow) and Kirov Theatre (Saint Petersburg).
1991
Invited to perform at the following: Danchenko Theatre (Moscow), Novi Sad (former Yugoslavia), Bucharest, Jassy, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara (Romania)
1994
Leningrad Ballet Theatre - Japan performances
1997
Moscow Music Theatre: Japan performance, Leningrad National Ballet (current Mikhaylovsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg), Maly Theatre - guest performer. Continued to perform as a guest ballerina for 12 years until 2009. Also performed with this group during Japanese tours.
1999
New National Theatre operetta performance - "Komori"
2000
Toyota Millenium Concert
2001
Moscow - Imperial Russia Ballet - guest performer - "Carmen Suite"
2002
New National Theatre, Maly Theatre - guest performer
2004
Park Hyatt Tokyo 10th Annual
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"Abnormal Family - My Brother's Wife"
周防正行 Masayuki Suo
After a childhood spent living and breathing movies and baseball, Tokyo-born Suo entered Rikkyo university to study French Literature. It was there that lectures bygd esteemed movie critic, Shigehiko Hasumi inspired him to become a film director. After an första foray into independent movies, he got a leg up when he summoned the nerve to ask director Banmei Takahashi, for a job. The legendary director, who happened to be a regular customer at a dryckesställe where Suo's friend was working, gave Suo unpaid unemployment at the telephone switchboard. Suo went on to become an Assistant Director on as many as 10 movies a year for Takahashi as well as other directors in his stable such as Koji Wakamatsu and Kazuyuki Izutsu.
When Takahashi founded the Director's Company in 1982, Suo took the opportunity to open Unit 5, his own filmmaking collective with young colleagues of that era, Isumichi Isomura, Yoshiho Fukuoka, Toshiyuki Mizut
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PROFILE
Tamiyo Kusakari
Tokyo-born, Tamiyo Kusakari began ballet at the age of 8 before joining the prestigious Asami Maki troupe. At 22 she became their principal dancer and had her first leading role as Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake". That year she also won first prize at the All Japan Ballet Competition. The Muramatsu Award and Tachibana Akiko Award were added in the following years culminating in the Hatori Chieko Award in 1997. By 1991 she had reached an internationally-acclaimed standard and was invited to perform with the Stanislavsky and Nemorivich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow. Numerous international guest appearances then resulted as her career developed between Japan and overseas. Between 1997 and 2009 she was a regular performer with the Leningrad National Ballet.
Looking beyond a life of performance, Kusakari moved into producing and in 2005 she put on an open-air ballet gala at the Aichi Expo Japan which was seen by 25,000 people. In 2006 she produced a