Hyuma Kiyosawa
Company Artist with the Joffrey since 2019
Biography
Hyuma Kiyosawa was born in Soest, Germany in 2001 and raised in Nagano Prefecture, Matsumoto City, Japan. He was awarded the Cultural Art Grand Prize from Matsumoto City, Japan.
He began his ballet training at the age of 6 at Aoki Chieko Ballet School and afterward with Momoko Ballet Studio. At the age of 9, he was invited to Kiev State Ballet School in Ukraine and studied there until 2012, under the instruction of Mr. Constantin Edward Costchcov. From 2012 to 2015, he received his training at Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C. by Mr. Nikolai Kabaniaev, Mr. Nikoloz Makhateli, and Mr. Stanislav Issaev. From 2015 to 2018, he was under the instruction of Mr. Nikolai Kabaniaev at City Ballet School in San Francisco.
He was offered to join The Joffrey Ballet after receiving a Silver medal at the 2018 USA XI International Ballet Competition. In 2019, he was a guest artist with Ballet Manila.
Since joining the Joffrey Ballet, he has performed in Liam Scarlett's Frankenstein (Creature), John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid (Prince), Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote (Basilio), Christopher Wheeldon's The Nutcracker (Peter), Yuri Possokhov's Anna Karenina (Levin), Gerald Arpino’s Suite Saint-Saëns, Stina Quagebeur's Hungry Ghost and Andrew McNicol's Younder Blue.
