Kim Sagami is an teaching assistant at Joffrey Ballet and former company member. We are beyond excited for Kim to be on faculty for our 2023 Summer Dance Intensive this season to train our dancers to the next level.
In person auditions are this Saturday, April 8 at 2:30pm. Video auditions are due May 1. Visit fmballet.org/summer for more information and to register for auditions.
Kim Sagami
Kim Sagami’s professional background began with American Ballet Theater II, she then joined The Joffrey Ballet under the directorship of Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino and completed her career with the National Tour of Phantom of the Opera. With The Joffrey Ballet for 14 years, Sagami participated in many historical dance restorations and revivals, as well as newly commissioned works by a wide range of choreographers such as Ashton, Arpino, Cranko, Kudelka, King, Nijinsky, Nijinska, Massine, Tudor, Taylor, Dean, Moulton, Pucci, Kylian, Morris, Sander, Joffrey, and Balanchine.
Presently, she teaches in Chicago during the school year and also travels around the country teaching ballet summer intensives. In the fall of 2010, she joined the dance conservatory faculty at the ChiArts High School in Chicago.
In 2004, she received her professional Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. She maintains time between both architecture and dance.