ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Curriculum Vitae

Kaho Yanagisawa is currently a soloist with Royal Swedish Ballet and Artistic Director of Stockholm 59°North.

She is from Japan and started ballet at the age of 5 and studied ballet at Acri Horimoto Ballet Academy until 2013. In 2013, she became the award winner of Prix de Lausanne and started her professional education at The Royal Ballet School in London (Graduated in 2016.)

She joined Royal Swedish Ballet in 2016, got promoted to 2nd soloist in 2020 after performing ”Overbord / Woman with Water”by Mats Ek. Over the years, she has danced many important roles in classical repertoires, such as ”Nötknäpparen / The Nutcracker” (Pär Isberg) as Lotta, ”Swan Lake” (Rudolf Nureyev) Pas de Trois, ”Sleeping Beauty”(Márcia Haydée) Bluebird Pas de deux, fairy etc. She also has many experiences dancing in contemporary repertoires such as Julia in ”Julia och Romeo / Julia and Romeo” (Mats Ek), ”Minus 16” (Naharin Ohad) Duet, ”Artifact Suite” (William Forsythe) 1st Pas de deux, ”Cacti” (Alexander Ekman) Main couple, ”Annunciation” (Angelin Preljocaj) Maria etc.

Kaho has been a company member of Stockholm 59° North since 2017, and she took on the responsibility as Artistic Director in March 2026.
She was nominated as Best female dancer in Benois de la Danse 2019.

REPERTOIRES

”Julia och Romeo / Julia and Romeo” (Mats Ek) Julia, ”Minus 16” (Naharin Ohad) Duet,
”Nötknäpparen / The Nutcracker” (Pär Isberg) Lotta
”Overbord / Woman with Water” (Mats Ek)
”Artifact Suite” (William Forsythe) 1st Pas de deux
”Svansjön / Swan Lake” (Pär Isberg) 4 small swans, Duett in Act 3
”Swan Lake” (Rudolf Nureyev) Pas de Trois, ”Alice in Wonderland” (Christopher Wheeldon) Lorina
”Sleeping Beauty” (Márcia Haydée) Bluebird Pas de deux, fairy
”Cacti” (Alexander Ekman) Main couple, ”Eskapist” (Alexander Ekman), ”Shift” (Alexander Ekman)
”Annunciation” (Angelin Preljocaj) Maria, ”Suite en Blanc” (Serge Lifar) Serenade,
”Riptide” (Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir) Main girl, ”Askungen” (Tamara Rojo) Spring fairy
”Right of Spring” (Maurce Bejart), ”Agon” (George Balanchine)
”Totality in Parts” (LukasTimulak), ”Le Sylphides”
”Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Alexander Ekman), ”Swan Lake” (Rudolf Nureyev) Pas de Trois,
”In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated” (William Forsythe) Isabelle solo, ”Everything” (Mari Carrasco),
”Terra” (Helena Franzén)”, ”Mirage” (Helena Franzén), ”Gustavia” (Pär Isberg),
”En kopp kaffe” (Mats Ek) ”Romeo & Juliet” (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)