by Lydia Murray | Dec 7, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
American Repertory Ballet dancer Ryoko Tanaka’s dance bag—a waterproof backpack by Rains—holds a cherished item: legwarmers from her former high-school teacher in Japan. Tanaka was in a program that allowed her to miss academic classes to study ballet. “She always...
by Julia Guiheen | Aug 27, 2019 | Career
American Repertory Ballet’s Ryoko Tanaka remembers her first class in the United States. She was 18 years old and a scholarship student at the Milwaukee Ballet summer intensive. “At barre, I reached out during demi-plié, and I saw the guy across...