Sahara Morimoto

Artistic Associate/Pilates Instructor

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Sahara Morimoto is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School. In 2004/05, while training at the Rotterdam Dance Academie, she worked with choreographers Douglas Bateman, Michael Crotty, Jérôme Meyer, Aida Redza, and in a creation of Itzik Galili for the International Theatre School Festival. In Canada, Sahara has danced with the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre, Divertimento Professional Project in 2004, and with Toronto Dance Theatre during fall 2005. She has continued her studies though various workshops presented by Series 8:08 and Doug Varone and Dancers. Over the last few years Sahara has had the privilege of working closely with Peggy Baker, and joined the company as Artistic Associate in January 2008. Sahara performed as part of Peggy Baker Dance Projects' 2008 Toronto Portal program in Baker's 1998 work Yang, she and will lead the Pilates course component in this year's August Intensive.