Michiyo Sato, M.A.  

Dancer/Choreographer/Teacher/Interpreter
Ambassador to Japan, Isadora Duncan International Institute

  Michiyo Sato is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer who - inspired by mythologies - makes dance blending Modern and Japanese Dances, seeking archetypal body language.  She is especially interested in the revival of dance theaters of the ancient Japanese and Greeks in which dance, drama, and music were integrated into one.
  
  After graduating Tsuda College, Ms. Sato received a scholarship from the Rotary Foundation and studied modern dance and choreography at New York University’s Master of Dance Education program, as well as with such world famous dancers as Erick Hawkins, Jeanne Bresciani, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Mary Anthony, Martha Myers, and Sachiyo Ito (Japanese traditional).  She received a Master of Dance Education degree from NYU along with the Dr. Patricia Rowe Award for “Outstanding Commitment to Dance Education.” 　
 
  Subsequently she toured around the U.S., England, and Japan with her choreography.  The New York Times declared that she “has a sophisticated way with style and content.”  In 2004 she had sold-out evening concerts titled, “SILK AND UME BLOSSOMING: To Women of Japan” at Joyce SoHo in New York.  In 2005 she was presented the “Audience Favorite Award” by die pratze Kagurazaka, Tokyo.  She choreographed Satie’s “Gnossienne No.2” in NHK TV “Sunday Museum: the Ancient Greek Arts” with Harpist Naoko Yoshino in 2011.  Each autumn since 2012, to support those affected by the Great Northern Earthquake, she brings her works and those of Isadora Duncan to Fukushima schools and provisional housing centers.
  
  In 1994 she served as Dance Assistant in Carman Moore’s “Mass for the 21st Century” at the Lincoln Center.   In 1998 she danced the Angel role in the musical “The King and I.”  Since 1999 she has been the Artistic Director of Michiyo Sato and Dancers, and since 2000 she has been the Ambassador to Japan of the Isadora Duncan International Institute (IDII); she researches the philosophy and performs the original dances of Isadora Duncan.

  Together with the Director of IDII, Dr. Jeanne Bresciani, she has held a series of performances and workshops at Tama Art University in 2000, the British Museum in 2001, the International House in Tokyo in 2004, the Asahi Art Square in 2006, a series of universities across Taiwan in 2007, the World Dance Festival since 2008, the Yokohama Forum in 2010, and WAVE 101 in Urayasu in 2012 and 2014.  She has also performed Isadora Duncan's choreography along with her own works at the Delphic Games in Greece, and the Aichi World EXPO, among many other venues.  In 2015 the Japan Modern Dance Association invited her to teach Isadora Duncan’s history, theory, and choreography in its “Summer University”.  In 2016 the All Japan Children Dance Association had her teach Isadora’s style of movement.

  She is a practitioner/teacher of Ideokinesis, a method to re-educate the neuromuscular system in order to achieve optimum body alignment.  She has taught at Tsuda College, the National Educational Workshop Forum, and Gakushuin Women’s College in Japan; in the US at New York University Sports Center and the United Nations Friendship Club; and in England at the London Institute, among others. Currently she runs her own dance studio, “Temple of Calla Lily; Isadora Duncan International Institute Japan” in Chiba, Japan.  She has written “Isadora Duncan's Dance Education and Spirituality” in the book, “What is Spirituality?”, and co-published a book, “Dances in the World” with World Dance Festival, Tokyo.