MITSURU ITO
TRAINING AND BEGINNINGS
Mitsuro Ito comes from Kanagawa, Japan, and completed his dance training at the Acri Horimoto Ballet Academy in Saitama, Japan, and at the Escola de Danza do Conservatorio Nacional in Lisbon. He gained experience with the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Cannes Jeune Ballet and Ballet National de Marseille. He has taken part in various competitions, including the Prix de Lausanne, the NBA Ballet Competition and the Japanese Grand Prix, and has always placed in the top three.
INNSBRUCK
In the 2019/20 season, he became a member of the TanzCompany of the Tiroler Landesthater in Innsbruck, where he danced in productions such as The Tempest, Frida Kahlo - Nueva Pasion and Terra Baixa (choreography: Enrique Gasa Valga) Wolfgang Amadeus (choreography: Marie Stockhausen) and Cyrano de Bergerac (choreography: Filip Veverka). He has also been involved in choreographies by contemporary guest choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian and Mauro Bigonzetti.
From December 2023 Mitsuru became a permanent ensemble member of the newly founded Limonada Enrique Gasa Valga Dance Company and was seen in Lágrimas Negras, The Great Gatsby at the Deutsches Theater Munich as well as in Monte-Carlo, Der Fall Wagner (Festspielhaus Erl - Tirol) and in Frida - Pasión por la vida (Deutsches Theater Munich) as Leo Trotzky.