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

• The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol – Spanish Dance, Oriental Dance

• The Sleeping Beauty – Fairy of Eloquence, Sapphire

• Coppélia – Prayer, Swanilda’s Friend, Work, Wedding Dance

• La Sylphide – Fairy (solo)

• Romeo and Juliet – Rosaline, Gypsy Women

• Cinderella – Exotic Dance, Guests at the Ball

• Swan Lake – Swans (corps roles)

• The Sun, Moon and Wind – Rufflette

Contemporary & neoclassical repertoire

• bpm – Bohemian Gravity

• bpm – Bill

• Beyond Vibrations – Moving Rooms

• Beyond Vibrations – Fly Paper Bird

• Beyond Vibrations – Frank Bridge Variations

• Moving Still – ensemble

• Holo Harmonies / Vertigo Pas de Deux – ensemble

• Edges of the Present (ND Lab 2021)