Remi Okamoto is a professionally trained dancer who has been dancing worldwide for over 7 years. She is from Kyoto, Japan and started ballet at the age of five in Keiko Honda Ballet School. As her love for dance grew, she decided to further her education at the Benedict Manniegel Ballet School and Company in München, Germany. Here, she studied dance with a focus on ballet, contemporary dance, and character dance. Soon after, she won a bronze medal in the Tanz Olymp competition of Berlin.
After graduation, she began her professional career with the Opera Wrocławska Ballet Troup in Poland where she built strong professional skills and fine tuned her artistic movement. Here, she performed in numerous classical ballets such as Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quichotte, and Coppelia.
Remi spent three years in Wrocław before joining the State Opera Plovdiv in Bulgaria. Here, she held a contract of a year where she danced important roles like Two Sisters in Cinderella, Big Swan in Swan lake, Carmen, and also main roles in contemporary work. In 2019 she joined L’opéra Grand Avignon in France where she danced in multiple main roles in both neo classical and contemporary works such as those choreographed by Martin Harriague, Carolyn Carlson, Pontus Lindberg, and Julien Guérin. She has also danced in Tivoli Ballet company in Copenhagen for Nutcracker in winter 2022. Remi joined Charlotte Ballet’s First Company in their 2023/2024 Season, and with them she has performed works by Alejandro Cerrudo, Ohad Naharin, Jiří Kylián, Mthuthuzeli November and Penny Saunders.
Her experiences create her love for being on stage and through her passion for dance she delivers joy and happiness to the audience.
