Michio Itō
| Michio Itō | |
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1919
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| Born |
April 13, 1892 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | November 6, 1961 (aged 69) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | choreographer |
Michio Itō (April 13, 1892 - November 6, 1961) was a Japanese immigrant who developed his own choreography in America. After learning musical theory in Germany he started to explore modern dance. He was an associate of William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Angna Enters, Isamu Noguchi, Louis Horst, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Lillian Powell, Vladimir Rosing, Pauline Koner, Lester Horton and others. He danced with the Anglo-Indian dancer Roshanara in 1917.
He was interned and eventually deported from the United States after the outbreak of World War II.
Caldwell, Helen. Michio Ito: The Dancer and His Dances. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara Naomi. 1982. Biographical dictionary of dance. New York: Schirmer Books.
Cowell, M. (09/01/2001). Dance chronicle: Michio Ito in Hollywood: Modes and ironies of ethnicity Taylor & Francis.
Cowell, M., & Shimazaki, S. (1994). East and West in the Work of Michio Ito. Dance Research Journal, 26(2), 11-23. doi:1. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1477913 doi:1.
The Dances of Michio Ito (2007), a film produced by the Chamber Dance Company. Performances taped in 2001 at the Meany Theatre and the Meany Studio Theatre, University of Washington; dances reconstructed by Taeko Furusho.
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