Kate Inoue

Kate joined LAB in 2020 and has danced the featured roles of Aurora and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Marie in The Nutcracker, Nichette in Val Caniparoli’s The Lady of the Camellias, and in productions such as Bloom by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, as well as Christopher Wheeldon’s Morphoses and Fool’s Paradise.

She trained in the Professional Division at Pacific Northwest Ballet and at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under directorship of Marcia Dale Weary and Darla Hoover. Her early training includes at Palos Verdes Ballet and Etoile Ballet School in Osaka, Japan. She was awarded second place at the Crea Ballet Competition in Hamamatsu, Japan in 2017.