Summer Intensive 2025 | Meet our faculty: Yuka Omori

Yuka Omori has extensive teaching, training and performing experiences. She has completed the Ecole Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower professional dance classic division in Cannes, France. She has danced principal roles for companies such as the Oakland Ballet, Minnesota Dance Theatre, New Jersey Ballet and was selected to perform two film projects for The George Balanchine Foundation and the French Ministry of Culture. She also is a certified ballet teacher of American Ballet Theatre, Vaganova method, Progressing Ballet Technique and Pilates Mat for 13 years. She has the knowledge of Progressing Ballet Technique’s pre pointe exercises and teach those to prepare pointe students to gain strength and avoid injuries. She has completed Ballet Pro’s pointe fitting course in Birmingham, England in March, 2024.