Company

Okawa Koya
Born in Japan. From the age of 2 she studied ballet at the Akan Ballet School in the city of Aomori. In 2007 she entered the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, from which she graduated in 2011.

In 2008 she won lst prize at an International Competition of Ballet Dancers in Kazakhstan. In 2009 she won 3rd prize at the International Competition of Ballet Dancers, in Moscow. He won 3rd prize at the Yuri Grigorovich International Young Dancers of the World Competition, in Sochi, 2010. He won lst prize at the Ekaterina Maximova Arabesque International Competition of Ballet Dancers, in Perm, 2012. He is the holder of the special Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev prize (in a duet with Midori Terada). In 2012 he won lst prize at the International Competition of Ballet Dancers in Sochi.

From 2011-2013 she was a soloist at the National Theatre of Ukraine, Odessa. Since September 2014 he has been soloist at the Tatar Musa Jalil State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

His repertoire includes the following, among other, roles: 
Ali (Le Corsaire, chor. Petipa, Sergeyev), 
The Little Golden God (La Bayadère), 
Jestor (Swan Lake), 
Title Role (Shuraleh, mus. Farid Yarullin, chor. Leonid Jacobson), 
Rukh Bird (One Thousand and One Nights, mus. F. Amirov, chor. N. Nazirova), 
Pas de deux Act 1 (Giselle), Chinese Dance, French Dance (Nutcracker, chor. Vaynonen).