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Takumi Miyake

Kagawa, Japan

Joined ABT 2023

Biography

Photo: Arnaud Stephenson.

Takumi Miyake was born in Kagawa, Japan, and began his training under his grandmother and mother at the age of three. He has won first place in many major national competitions in Japan. In 2017, he took part in Youth American Grand Prix where he won first place and received a full scholarship to The Royal Ballet School. He studied at The Royal Ballet School from September 2017 to July 2022, having received The London Ballet Circle Dame Ninette Award for the most outstanding male graduate of The Royal Ballet School that year.  

Miyake joined ABT Studio Company in September 2022. In 2023, he performed the Flames of Paris pas de deux as part of Natalia Osipova’s Force of Nature Gala at New York City Center and partnered Maria Khoreva in the Le Corsaire pas de trois at the Nervi International Dance Festival in Italy.  

Miyake became an apprentice with the main Company in November 2023.