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Michio Itō (伊藤 道郎, Itō Michio, 13 April 1892 - 6 November 1961) was a Japanese dancer who developed his own choreography style in Europe and America. He was the son of Kimiye Iijima and architect Tamekichi Ito who was educated at the University of Washington; he was one of nine children, and the brother of director Koreya Senda.
His older brother was the dancer and choreographer Michio Ito. Senda adopted his stage name due to an incident that followed the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Japanese vigilantes roamed the streets, and accused, beat, and killed people they suspected of being Korean in what became the Kantō Massacre. Senda wrote in 1988: [2]
She studied ballet under Michel Fokine in the 1920s; [3] her father "paid" for the high-priced lessons by offering legal services in exchange. [2] Koner later studied under Angel Cansino. She was a student of the Spanish dance form, as well as the fusion of Asian and Western dance popularized by Japanese choreographers Michio Itō and Yeichi ...
Michio (written: 道夫, 道雄, 道郎, 通夫 or 三知男) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: Michio Ariyoshi (有吉 道夫, born 1935), Japanese shogi player; Michio Itō (伊藤 道郎, 1892–1961), Japanese dancer and choreographer; Michio Kaku (born 1947), American theoretical physicist, futurist ...
Jerry Ito (July 12, 1927 in New York City, New York – July 8, 2007 in Los Angeles, California) was a Japanese-American film and television actor, born as Gerald Tamekichi Itō, specializing in Japanese films throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Misha Gabriel (born May 13, 1987), also known as Misha Gabriel Hamilton, [1] is an American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is known for dancing mainly in the shows of Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson, and for his role as Eddy in Step Up Revolution (2012) [2] and Step Up: All In (2014).
Eugene Louis Faccuito (March 20, 1925 – April 7, 2015), known professionally as Luigi, was an American jazz dancer, choreographer, teacher, and innovator who created the jazz exercise technique. The Luigi Warm Up Technique is a training program that promotes body alignment, balance, core strength, and "feeling from the inside". [ 1 ]
Kevin Stea was born in Hollywood, California, and is half-Caucasian and half-Chinese.His father owned a Chinese restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles. [12] He grew up in various places in the United States (California; Marlette, Michigan; Eugene, Oregon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Santa Fe, New Mexico), and then completed his high school education in Singapore on a scholarship at the United World ...