We’re excited to announce dancer training program instructor Kim Sagami!
Kim (she/her) is a Chicago-based ballet teacher who was trained in Los Angeles before joining the Joffrey Ballet at the invitation of Robert Joffrey. Her teaching style reflects the influences of her mentors: Robert Joffrey, Gerald Arpino, Hilary Cartwright/Yoga Narada, and Alonzo King/LINES. In addition, Kim graduated with an architectural degree from Illinois Institute of Technology which have greatly influenced her teaching of alignment and form.
Her teaching credits include Joffrey Academy of Dance, Hubbard St. Dance Chicago, Visceral Dance, Ballet 5:8, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Chicago High School of the Arts, Chicago Ballet Arts, Regional Dance America, Interlochen Arts, Thodos Dance Chicago. Master classes in Sydney, Tokyo, LA, NY, and Chicago.
Film credits include the 1987 film of Joffrey’s historic restoration of Nijinsky’s lost Le Sacre du Printemps and a featured role in the film of BILLBOARDS, a full- length rock ballet with music by Prince. Musical Theater credits include a featured role in the national US touring company of The Phantom of the Opera.
Ms. Sagami is currently on faculty at Roosevelt University and is Resident Master Teacher at Fort Wayne Ballet. She is certified in ABT National Training Curriculum, Progressing Ballet Technique and Zena Rommett Floor Barre. Ms. Sagami is president of the board of directors for The Gerald Arpino Foundation and also serves as répétiteur for the foundation and the Edward Stierle Family Trust. She is looking forward to teaching for Chicago Repertory Ballet’s Professional Training Program.
For more information on CRB’s Professional Training Program including prospective schedules, registration and scholarship information click below!