Getting to Know Aoi Aihara
The Career of a Performer
Aoi Aihara
Dancer/perfomer
Orange Coast College
August 2015 - May 2018
Karen Shanley Dance Scholarship by Orange Coast College Dance Department 2016
Dorothy Duddridge Scholarship by Orange Coast College Dance Department 2018
Student Dance Award by Orange Coast College Dance Department 2016, 2017, 2018
University of California Irvine
September 2018 - June 2020
Since Aihara transferred to UCI, she was chosen to perform in Faculty choreography concerts, Graduate students choreography concerts, Undergraduate students choreography concerts, MFA student thesis concerts, and BFA students thesis concerts.
Perfomance Experience
2006-2021
Nutcracker and “The Japan Ballet 21” Matsuyama Ballet Company 2006, 2007, 2008
Faculty Dance Concert Orange Coast College 2015, 2016, 2017
Student Dance Concert Orange Coast College 2016, 2017, 2018
Adjudicate/Informal Dance Concert American College Dance Association 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
Herencia Latina Jose Costas Contempo Ballet 2016
The Concert Premier Jose Costas Contempo Ballet 2016, 2018
Palm Spring Dance Festival Eric Rivera 2017
National College Dance Festival The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2018
Graduate students choreography “New Slate” University of California Irvine 2018, 2019
Faculty choreography “Dance Vision” University of California Irvine 2019, 2020
East Meets West University of California Irvine 2019
Current UCI MFA Thesis Dance Concert 2019
In Our Best Light UCI BFA Thesis Dance Concert 2019
VIDA UCI BFA Thesis Dance Concert 2019
Nabla Virtual Performance Festival “In-Canti Spells” in 2021 (http://nabla-festival.it/)
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“Schism” - co-choreographed with Nanami Tsunemoto/ performed in American College Dance Association in 2017 and Orange Coast College Student Dance Concert in 2017.
“Sangria” performed in Orange Coast College Student Dance Concert in 2018.
Aoi Aihara was originally from Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 3, she began dancing ballet at Matsuyama Ballet company studio. At the age of 10, she joined and performed in many concerts/performances with the Matsuyama Ballet Company. Aihara also studied jazz, ballet, contemporary, tap, and musical theater at the Breath Performing Arts Studio in Japan. She performed in some musicals such as Cats, A Chorus Line, Wicked, and Hairspray in her high school.
Aihara came to the U.S. In 2015. She attended Orange Coast College (OCC) as a dance major and has taken many different styles of dance classes, such as Ballet, Modern, Hiphop, choreography, tap, Jazz, Flamenco, Middle Eastern, and Latin. She got to perform in American College Dance Association National Conference at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a part of the OCC Hip hop dance group in 2018. She has received several scholarships and awards from the OCC Dance department for 3 years. Aihara was professionally on the stage with Jose Costas Contempo Ballet in 2016 and 2018.
In 2020, Aihara received a BA in Dance from University of California Irvine (UCI) where she trained under Lar Lubovitch, Tong Wang, Loretta Livingston and more faculties and choreographers. She was chosen by faculty, graduate student and undergraduate student choreographers to work with them and to perform many times at UCI.
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