Chihiro Sudo

Biography

Born in Japan, Chihiro Sudo completed her professional training at Tanz Akademie Zürich, graduating in 2023 with a choreographic diploma. As a student she appeared in academy productions, including Balanchine’s Serenade and the Bournonville Napoli pas de six, and spent the 2022/23 season as an apprentice with Junior Ballet Zürich dancing excerpts by David Dawson and Marco Goecke.

She joined the Czech National Ballet on 16 August 2023 and quickly drew notice for her lyrical port de bras, fleet footwork and innate feel for Balanchine style. Classical highlights already include the Prayer solo and Swanilda’s Friend in Coppélia, the Fairy of Eloquence and the Sapphire Jewel in The Sleeping Beauty, the Fairy solo in La Sylphide, Rosaline and Gypsy Women in Romeo and Juliet, and both Spanish and Oriental Dances in The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol.

Her contemporary credits span the bpm triptych (Bohemian Gravity, Bill), the mixed bill Beyond Vibrations (Moving Rooms, Fly Paper Bird, Frank Bridge Variations) and ensemble sections of Jiří Kylián’s Moving Still. She embodies the role of Rufflette in Viktor Konvalinka’s fairy-tale ballet The Sun, the Moon, the Wind.

She is a laureate of several international competitions – in 2018, she won 1st place at the Victoire Ballet Competition in Kobe, Japan, along with a scholarship offer to Tanz Akademie Zürich. A year earlier, she was a finalist at YAGP Japan and received a scholarship offer to the Dutch National Ballet Academy in the Netherlands.

Classical repertoire

• Coppélia – Prayer, Swanilda’s Friend, Work, Wedding Dance (Ronald Hynd)

• La Sylphide – Sylph (solo) (Johan Kobborg)

• The Nutcracker – Christmas Story – Spanish Dance, Oriental Dance (Youri Vámos)

• Romeo and Juliet – Rosaline, Gypsies (John Cranko)

• Sleeping Beauty – Fairy of Eloquence, Sapphire (Márcia Haydée)

• Swan Lake – Swans (corps de ballet roles) (John Cranko / Dumbala & Vlačilová / Kenneth Greve – various versions)

Contemporary & neoclassical repertoire

• bpm – Bill (Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar)

• bpm – Bohemian Gravity (Yemi A.D.)

• Beyond Vibrations – Fly Paper Bird (Marco Goecke)

• Beyond Vibrations – Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)

• Beyond Vibrations – Moving Rooms (Krzysztof Pastor)

• Cinderella – Exotic Dance, Guests at the Ball (Jean-Christophe Maillot)

• Edges of the Present (ND Lab 2021) (choreographer not specified)

• Holo Harmonies / Vertigo Pas de Deux – corps de ballet (Mauro Bigonzetti / Alexander Ekman)

• Moving Still – corps de ballet (Jiří Kylián)

• The Sun, the Moon and the Wind – Čepýřilka (Viktor Konvalinka)