The Beauty of Dance, Part Two: Yuka Iino, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland, OR

A native of Japan, Yuka Iino was three years old when mother saw her dancing to music from a television set, and sent the little girl to ballet school. Ms. Iino never looked back.



Ms. Iino joined the Oregon Ballet Theater in 2003 after having been a principal dancer in the Reiko Yamamoto Ballet Company. (She became a prinicpal dancer at OBT in 2007.) Her major roles while with the OBT include Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and the title role in Possokhov’s Firebird and Raymonda, among others.