Yuriko Lead to Of Dying: What Transpired To Martha Graham Dancer Yuriko Kikuchi?

American dancer and choreographer, Yuriko Kikuchi, has died at age 102, following a short illness.

Identified to audiences by her stage title Yuriko, was finest recognised for her work with the Martha Graham Dance Organization.

Born on February 2, 1920, Yuriko joined the Martha Graham Dance Enterprise in 1944 and continued with the corporation for the following 50 many years.

She danced in the 1st output of Graham’s masterpiece, Clytemnestra, as properly as in Appalachian Spring, Cave of the Coronary heart, and Dark Meadow.

She has also reconstructed a variety of Graham’s dances these types of as Primitive Mysteries.

In addition to her function in modern-day dance, Yuriko executed on Broadway in the unique productions of The King and I (1951–54) and Flower Drum Music (1958–60) and directed the 1977-78 Broadway revival of The King and I.

She has also performed on tv, and in motion images and danced to works by Halim El-Dabh and Eugene Lester. She taught famous dancers this sort of as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Reiko Sato, and Miki Orihara.

She fashioned her individual fashionable dance enterprise in 1967, which remained energetic right until 1973.

Yuriko married Charles Kikuchi in 1946 and experienced two little ones. She died in Manhattan on March 8, 2022, at the age of 102.