Yuki Takahashi | Soloist2025-11-10T07:35:07-08:00
PNB Dancer Yuki Takahashi

Yuki
Takahashi

Yuki Takahashi is from Tokyo, Japan. She studied at Ballet Academy of Texas, Mejia Ballet International, Ballet Academy East, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and she attended summer courses at American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, Ballet Academy East, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Ms. Takahashi joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2019, promoted to corps de ballet later that year, and to soloist in 2025.

In addition to her PNB repertory, Ms. Takahashi performed leading roles in Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations at Ballet Ensemble of Texas; Balanchine’s Raymonda Variations, Alan Hineline’s Sans Nuages, and Roger Van Fleteren’s Coppélia at Ballet Academy East; Francis Patrelle’s The Yorkville Nutcracker with Dances Patrelle; and Paul Mejia’s Brahms Waltzes and The Nutcracker at Mejia Ballet International. Ms. Takahashi was a 2014 recipient of the Kittie La Pointe Memorial Scholarship provided by the Dance Council of North Texas.

Featured & Leading Roles

George Balanchine

Allegro Brillante
The Nutcracker

(The Sugar Plum Fairy, Harlequin, Marzipan, Dewdrop)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(Butterfly)

Peter Boal

Giselle

(Peasant pas de deux, Zulme)

Donald Byrd

Love and Loss

Alejandro Cerrudo

One Thousand Pieces

Jiří Kylián

Petite Mort

Kent Stowell

Swan Lake

(Pas de Trois (Act I), Pas de Quarte, Neopolitan)

Twyla Tharp

Brief Fling
Sweet Fields

Original Roles

Alejandro Cerrudo

Black on Black on Black

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

Khepri

Nia-Amina Minor

And yet here we are

Dwight Rhoden

Catching Feelings

Kiyon Ross

…throes of increasing wonder

Penny Saunders

Wonderland

Dancer Promotions! Christopher D’Ariano, Clara Ruf Maldonado, Mark Cuddihee, Ashton Edwards, Juliet Prine, and Yuki Takahashi

November 7th, 2025|Dancer Announcements, Dancers, Life at PNB|

Following the opening night world premiere performance of AfterTime in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s current mixed rep program, PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal announced the promotion of four corps de ballet dancers to the rank of soloist, and two soloists being elevated to principal dancers. Read all about it here!

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