The Joffrey Ballet School
Tomiko Magario is the founding director of the New Rising Sun Dance Project and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Joffrey Ballet School. As a teacher, her international teaching career has been based at Steps on Broadway in New York City for last twenty years. She has also taught for the New York City Public School System through the Brooklyn Ballet’s outreach program.
As a choreographer and repetiteur, she has been responsible for bringing many classics as well as new works to the stage and served as a ballet mistress and assistant to the choreographer for such companies as Ballet Neo and Dance Theater in Westchester.
Ms. Magario is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed all levels of the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
In 2008 Tomiko Magario founded the New Rising Sun Dance Project, which has as its mission to present both performances and educational workshops aimed at both the dance community and the general public. Her choreographic work has been described as both classic and futuristic. In 2023, she was invited to work as a choreographer with the “Got My Wings” project of composer Daniel Blake and the Westchester Ballet Company. Other works in progress include a multi-discipline live arts presentation of “An Imperial Message” based on short story by Franz Kafka, which has been presented as a part of the residency program of the Bethany Arts Community in 2022, and “The Piano Concerto” music by Michael Nyman presented at Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute in 2019 and 2023.
As a dancer, Tomiko Magario’s performing credits range from guest artist engagements with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center to site specific performances of The Fringe Festival, NYC. As a ballet dancer she has served as a principal dancer and a soloist for a variety of ballet companies including New Jersey Ballet, Ballet New England, Ballet Theater Pennsylvania and Staten Island Ballet. She has also worked with multimedia choreographers such as Rosanna Gamson and Kriota Wilberg. A protégée of the baroque dance master Thomas Baird, she has performed with Mr. Baird at Avery Fisher Hall.
Originally educated in Japan, Tomiko Magario continued her dance training in the United States, studying at The Joffrey Ballet School and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.
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