NAOMI TANIOKA

Naomi Tanioka, originally from Sapporo, Japan, started her training with Chida Toshiko Ballet Studio. Ms. Tanioka was accepted to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in Canada,

where she concluded her 6 years of professional ballet training, and one year of the Aspirant Program. In 2014, Ms. Tanioka joined Ballet Arizona, where she performed many Balanchine and Bournonville ballets. She then joined Cincinnati Ballet in 2016, where she was pushed out of her box with a variety of repertoire performed there. Since joining Kansas City Ballet in 2019, she has been featured as Odette and Odile in Swan Lake, Cinderella in Cinderella, Kitri in Don Quixote, Alice in Alice (in wonderland), Nellie in Jekyll and Hyde, Lucy in Dracula, Wendy in Peter Pan, Cowgirl in Rodeo, Liberty Bell in Stars and Stripes, the pas de deux couple in Rubies, and Jete woman in In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated.