Sonoko Kamimura
Movement Choreographer
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Sonoko Kamimura, born in Gifu (Japan), has been working as a free-lance artist, dancer and trainer in Frankfurt am Main since 2016. She worked with the Forsythe Company on William Forsythe’s Kammer-Kammer, one of his last productions in Frankfurt. After training as a ballerina with Reiko Matsuoka she worked with Toru Shimazaki, who she followed to the Netherlands where she studied contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy / CODARTS, after which she danced with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam from 2011 – 2013 and participated in various projects in Amsterdam and Tokyo. She danced in Ted Huffman‘s highly successful 2017 Oper Frankfurt production of Handel‘s Rinaldo in the Bockenheimer Depot; the year she helped him with movement choreography on Madama Butterfly at Zurich Opera, as she did when this new production of Puccini's masterpiece opened in Frankfurt last season. In 2019 she rehearsed a revival of Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and again a year later at the Opéra National in Montpellier. She worked with Ted Huffman on his 2019 production of Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and, most recently, Braunfels‘ Die Vögel / The Birds at the Opéra National du Rhin in Straßburg and the world premiere of Stefan Wirth’s Girl with the Pearl Earring at Zurich Opera. She assisted Christopher Roman's choreography for Mexico Aura at Neukölln Oper Berlin (2022) and was movement advisor on a new production of Madama Butterfly at Covent Garden (2022).