Yuki Tokuda
Teaching Artist

Yuki Tokuda is originally from Japan, and was trained under Mikiko Dei, Hideo Fukagawa and  Jun Ishii, internationally recognized dancers, teachers and competition judges. She moved to  the US in 2000 to continue her training in New York at the Joffrey Ballet School. Her teachers  includes David Howard, John Prinz, Fabrice Herrault, and Michael Vernon at Steps on  

Broadway in New York where she was one of the first International Visa Program students. She  has, also, trained with Boston Ballet and Connecticut Ballet. She has danced professionally  with USA Ballet, Peoria Ballet, Metropolitan Ballet and she was the principal dancer at  Continental Ballet for 7 years. With diverse training in classical, contemporary, modern and  jazz, she is an international guest dancer and collaborator with many companies, including  Minnesota’s James Sewell Ballet and Minnesota Dance Theatre. She has performed many  principal roles in The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Coppelia, Romeo and  Juliet, Giselle and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has been teaching over 20 years, from  beginners to master classes in Japan and the US, including at Cathedral Dance Festival and  Interlochen Center for the Arts. She is a faculty member at Minnesota Dance Theatre and a  certified STOTT Pilates Instructor. Her choreography was chosen for Choreographer’s Evening  at The Walker Arts Center and has been commissioned by Wayzata Symphony Orchestra,  Wooddale Church, Cerulean Fire, Japan America Society of Minnesota and Saint Paul  Conservatory for Performing Artists. She is a recipient of Minnesota State Arts Board and St.  Louis Park Arts & Culture Grant. 

She is the owner/designer of Yukitard, a custom dancewear company, as well as, the owner/instructor of Tokuda Ballet, a private ballet school.