Kaori Ito

Kaori Ito (伊藤郁女)(born 1979) is a Japanese dancer and choreographer who is active in France. She founded the dance company Hime.

Early life and education Ito was born in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. She began studying dance at 5 years old, learning from Syuntoku Takagi (高木俊徳). She studied at Purchase College in the United States, and earned a degree in sociology and education from Rikkyo University in Tokyo.

Career Ito began her career by dancing works choreographed by Philippe Decouflé and Angelin Preljocaj. In 2008, she began to choreograph her own works, and created a dance company called Hime in 2014. and "I dance because I do not trust words", a duet piece with her father, sculptor Hiroshi Ito.