Kaori Ito
伊藤郁女
Nationality	Japanese
Education	State University of New York at Purchase and Rikkyo University
Occupation(s)	Dancer and choreographer

Kaori Ito (伊藤郁女)(born 1979) is a Japanese dancer and choreographer who is active in France. She founded the dance company Hime.

Ito was born in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. She began studying dance at 5 years old, learning from Syuntoku Takagi (高木俊徳).^[1] She studied at Purchase College in the United States, and earned a degree in sociology and education from Rikkyo University in Tokyo.^[1] After graduation, Ito received a grant from the Japanese government to study in New York with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre.^[2]

Ito began her career by dancing works choreographed by Philippe Decouflé and Angelin Preljocaj.^[3] In 2008, she began to choreograph her own works, and created a dance company called Hime in 2014.^[4] She was awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2015.^[3]

Some of Ito's best known works include "Plexus", a collaboration with Aurélien Bory in which Ito hung from strings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music;^[5][6] and "I dance because I do not trust words", a duet piece with her father, sculptor Hiroshi Ito.^[7]

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