Tomomi Sato

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1) What is your favourite ballet/or role?
I always love whatever I dance, even if it’s hard or tough to do. My wish is that that I get a chance to be Juliet at least once, before I get too old.

 

2) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
I like prawns and crab (raw or cooked), but without sauce or anything on it. Simply put on soy sauce and (lots of) wasabi, that’s best for me. I love fruit too.

 

3) What made you take up dance as a career?
I’m very happy when I dance, sometimes it is so hard physically and mentally but I always just think of it as a challenge.

 

4) What is your greatest extravagance?
I don’t go out but I love a nice malt whisky.

 

5) Who is your hero or heroes?
My mum, she is the strongest woman, even if sometimes I have moments I don’t want to listen to her, or don’t agree with her.

 

6) If you could be stuck in a lift with anyone, who would it be?
I really don’t want to be stuck in a lift, it would be horrible and I’d panic really badly.

 

7) What has been your favourite venue to perform in?
In Cuba, the stage wasn’t great (bad floors etc.) but the people know ballet. If they love you, they are so excited. If they don’t - no future. You just have to try your best.

 

8) What type of music do you like to unwind to?
I like many different kinds of music, if it makes you feel nice when you listen to it.

 

9) Who would you like to play you in the film of your life?
I really don’t think anyone would want to play me, I think I’m too weird.

 

10) Do you have any hobbies?
I don’t have any at the moment, but I’ll think about it when I don’t dance anymore.

 

Biography

 

Born in Nagoya, Japan, Tomomi trained at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague and was awarded the senior second prize at the 4th International Ballet Competition, Luxembourg and junior first prize at the Kobe Ballet Competition, Japan in 1995. She joined the Royal Flanders Ballet, Antwerp in 1995. From 1998 to 2000 she was based in Bordeaux, guest performing in France, Cuba, Mexico and Colombia. She performed major classical ballet variations and grand pas de deux from Coppélia, The Nutcracker, SwanLake, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty and many others.  Contemporary work includes No More Play from Jiri Kylian.

 

 

Since joining Scottish Ballet in 2000, Tomomi has danced in Page’s Cheating, Lying, Stealing (first lead female), The Nutcracker (Marie), Cinderella (Cinderella, Spring), Soft Underbelly, Nightswimming Into Day, Walking In The Heat,The Pump Room, Fearful Symmetries and The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Cohan’s Aladdin (The Princess), North’s Death and The Maiden (The Maiden) and The Snowman (Music Box Ballerina), Ashton’s The Two Pigeons (The Young Girl) and Façade, Pastor's In Light And Shadow, van Manen’s Two Pieces For Het, Forsythe’s Artifact Suite, Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Rubies (lead couple) and Episodes.  

 

Quotes

 

Sleeping Beauty 2007 – 2008  

 

 

Ellon Advertiser Series, 18^th January Nicola Prise Porter “Her [Tomomi Sato] beautiful dancing dominates the stage.”

 

Cinderella 2006/2007
.Edinburgh Evening News, 05 Jan 2007 – Tomomi Sato is a particularly stunning spring tulip

 

EIF 2006
Krzysztof Pastor’s In Light And Shadow
 . Sunday Express, 27 Aug 2006 – The dancers, led by the brilliant Tomomi Sato…

 

CINDERELLA 2005-2006
Page’s Cinderella
. Evening News, 5 January 2006 – In particular Tomomi Sato’s delicate Spring and Martina Forioso’s spiky, aggressive Autumn are a true delight.

 

. Stoke Sentinel Sunday, 9 March 2006 – Last night she was played by the Japanese ballerina Tomomi Sato, slight of build but with a powerful stage presence.

 

. BBC Stoke-on-Trent, 21 March 2006 - … and on the first night Tomomi Sato was the perfect Cinders – small, fragile and full of grace.

 

AUTUMN 2004
Van Manen’s Two Pieces for HET
. Inverness Courier, 5 October 2004 – Two Pieces for a HET, again incredibly well danced by the very gifted Tomomi Sato, as ever, an absolute delight to the eye, and Olivier Rydout, and he, though eye-catching in see-through leotard and thong, is much more than a mere foil to her skill and grace.

 

SPRING 2004
Page’s Soft Underbelly
. The Guardian, 2 April 2004- With a West Side Story sparkle, Soft Underbelly (1999) shines in the perky dancing of Tomomi Sato, Lilian Pommier and Adam Blyde.

 

. Sunday Express, 4 April 2004 – Tomomi Sato, with Lilian Pommier and Adam Blyde, is riveting in Soft Underbelly. With her infallible technique and a knowing air, she hints at all we ever dared dream of.

 

. Sunday Herald, 4 April 2004 – My omission would be Soft Underbelly (1999, immaculately danced by firecracker Tomomi Sato (on pointe), Lillian Pommier and Adam Blyde…

 

. Daily Telegraph, 5 April 2004 - … I was amazed by the delectable feminine command that tiny Tomomi Sato effortlessly exercised over two callow men. She has an extraordinary spontaneity in the way she moves…