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Getting to Know Aoi Aihara

The Career of a Performer

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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.

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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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