Kate Inoue

Kate trained in the Professional Division at Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Her early training includes the Palos Verdes Ballet and Etoile Ballet School in Osaka, Japan. She has danced the featured roles of Aurora and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Marie in The Nutcracker, Nichette in Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias, and in contemporary works such as Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Bloom and Christopher Wheeldon’s Morphoses and Fool’s Paradise.Kate Inoue began her ballet training at Palos Verdes Ballet and continued at Etoile Ballet School in Osaka, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Professional Division.

Since joining Los Angeles Ballet, Kate has performed principal roles including Giselle in Giselle; Aurora and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty; Cinderella in Cinderella; Marie (Sugar Plum Fairy) in The Nutcracker; and Nichette in Val Caniparoli’s The Lady of the Camellias. Her repertoire also includes principal roles in George Balanchine’s Rubies and Serenade, as well as featured roles in neoclassical and contemporary works by Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.

Outside LAB, Kate has performed internationally as a principal guest artist, including numerous ballet galas and festivals.