Chinatsu Kosakatani - Dancer

 Of  Japanese origin, Chinatsu Kosakatani trains herself first in the  Yamamouchi Ballet School of Osaka and then in the Stedelijk Institut  voor Ballet in Anvers (Belgium). She works for the Oldenburgisches  Staatstheater (Germany), and at the Danza prospettiva di Vittorio Biagi  company in Rome. She dances for Maryse Delente, Jean-Claude Gallotta,  Itzik Galili, Ohad Naharin, Jean Guizerix, Rui Horta and Michel  Kelemenis after having joined the North Ballet in Roubaix in 1998.

Under  the direction of Carolyn Carlson, she dances in Inanna, Down by the  river, Full Moon, Water Born, Li, Hidden, Eau, Present memory, Mundus  Imaginalis and We were horses. In 2010, she creates her first piece  Ahimsa and, in 2011, Roubaix Choreographic National Center gives her the  creation of a choreography for a territory-based project called  dansewindows jazz. She is part of the program to support younger  talents, Red Brick #B, with a third choreography, Something like.

In 2013, she dances for Caterina Sagna in Bal en Chine, in 2014 she takes over a part in Olivier Dubois’s creation Revolution and  she creates with Clément Dazin (La Main de l’Homme Cy) the duet R2JE in  Avignon Festival. She dances also with hip-hop choreographer Brahim  Bouchelaghem in Tracks (since 2014) and Usure (2019) and with Akoma névé cy in Metamorphose (2018).