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- Repertoire includes:
- Nutcracker, Raymonda, Die Puppenfee,
etc. Vienna State Opera Ballet
- Fanny Elssler, the Dancer
Volksoper, Vienna
- Giselle, Grand Pas de Deux
Jeunesse Austria Tour
- Eclipse, ACBT, New Jersey
- The Conductor, the Maid
Union Square Dance Festival, NYC and
Festival Off, Avignon, France
- Sleeping Beauty, Grand Pas de Deux
Österreichisches Ballett Theater & JDU
- Don Giovanni, Mask Dancer
Kammeroper, Vienna
- Romeo & Juliet, Juliet
Juneau Dance Unlimited, Juneau Alaska
- Urashima Taro, Princess Otohime
Austrian Ballet Company, Akzenttheater
- Flowerfesival in Genzano, Pas de Deux
Ballet Bellevue, Meydenbauer Theatre,
- The View from Here
FDC, Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle
- Merry!, Susi, Alaska Dance Theatre, Anchorage
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Rio as a Street Dancer in Don Quixote
copyright Yuriko Oe
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Pas de Quatre
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Artistic Director:
- January 2000 to June 2001: Juneau Dance Unlimited, Juneau, Alaska
- 1998 to 2004: Austrian Ballet Company, Vienna, Austria
- 2004 to present: ABC-Tokyo Ballet Co., Tokyo, Japan
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- Trained at:
- Vienna State Opera Ballet School
- Graduate of the Conservatory of Vienna
- Vladimir Tsukanov, Virginia Stankiewiz, Bolshoi/Vaganova
- Diana Cartier, American Ballet Theater
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- Training and Coaching Experience:
Rio teaches in English, German, Japanese, and French
- Giselle, Grand Pas de Deux for the Demi Soloist of the Vienna State Opera Ballet
- Romeo & Juliet, Balcony scene for a dancer of the Royal Ballet
- Hänsel und Gretl, Gretl for a dancer of the American Ballet Theatre
- Swan Lake, Neapolitan Dance for a Demi-soloist of the Vienna State Opera Ballet
- Blue Danube Waltz, soloists of the Vienna State Opera Ballet
- The Magic Toyshop, Harlequin for a dancer of the Royal Ballet
- Sleeping Beauty, Budapest soloists of the Hungarian State Opera Ballet
- Swan Lake, Odette for the soloist in Japan
Prizes
For having prepared Asami Koizumi for the first prize in a competition, Rio received a prize as coach and ballet master.
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- Choreography:
- Prima la Musica, for Austrian public TV (ORF)
- Urashima Taro, A Japanese Fairytale, Akzent Theater, Vienna
- Mozart's Pour le Roi, Jeunesse Austria Tour
- Carmen, Jeunesse Austria Tour
- Johann Strauß Memories, Vienna Festival Weeks
- Nostalgies, Kinderklang, Vienna with artists of the Vienna Philharmonic
- Roses from the South, ACBT, New Jersey
- Etudes, Redwood Concert Ballet, CA
- The Conductor, Festival Off, Avignon, France, Union Square Dance Festival, NYC
- For God, Hokkaido, Japan
- Romeo & Juliet, JDHS, Juneau
- Yuki Onna - The Snow Princess, Japan, Australia, Europe
- Urashima Taro - A fisher's man tale, Japan, Australia
- The Wonderful World of Dance,
Japan
- Umbrellas of Kyoto, premiere in 2012
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