Hyuma Kiyosawa
Location
Nagano, Japan
Company Artist with the Joffrey since 2019
Biography
Hyuma Kiyosawa was born in 2001 in Soest, Germany, and raised in Nagano Prefecture, Matsumoto City, Japan.
He was offered to join The Joffrey Ballet Company after receiving a Silver medal at the 2018 USA XI International Ballet Competition in Jackson Mississippi at the age of 17. He was awarded the Cultural Art Grand Prize from Matsumoto City, Japan
Since joining the Joffrey, he has performed leading roles in Liam Scarlett's Frankenstein (Creature) Carmen (Don Jose), John Neumeier’s Little Mermaid (Prince), Christopher Wheeldon's Nutcracker (Peter) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Jack/Knave), Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote (Basilio) Anna Karenina (Levin), Gerald Arpino’s Suite Saint-Saëns, Nicolas Blanc’s Under the Tree’s Voices, Stina Quagebeur's Hungry Ghost and Andrew McNicol's Yonder Blue.
He began his ballet training at the age of 6 at Aoki Chieko Ballet School and afterwards with Momoko Ballet Studio. At the age of 9 he started his curriculum at Kiev State Ballet School in Ukraine under the instruction of Constantin Edward Costchcov, studied there till 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he received his training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C. by Nikolai Kabaniaev, Nikoloz Makhateli, and Stanislav Issaev. From 2015 to 2018, he was under the instruction of Nikolai Kabaniaev at City Ballet School in San Francisco.
He was a guest artist with Ballet Manila in 2019.
Hyuma Kiyosawa in Andew McNicol's Yonder Blue. Photo by Cheryl Mann.
Hyuma Kiyosawa in Liam Scarlett's Frankenstein. Photo by Cheryl Mann.
Hyuma Kiyosawa in Gerald Arpino's Suite Saint-Saëns.
Hyuma Kiyosawa in Christopher Wheeldon's The Nutcracker. Photo by Cheryl Mann.
Hyuma Kiyosawa in John Neumeier's The Little Mermaid.