Ako Sago

With the ensemble since 2023/24

Ako Sago was born in Japan and began dancing at the age of five at L’espoir de ballet in Gifu. She won prizes at the Youth America Grand Prix Japan and reached the finals in both 2020 and 2021, which led to her admission to the European School of Ballet in Amsterdam. In 2021, she continued her training at the Ballet School of Theater Basel, graduating in summer 2023. During her studies, she performed at the Gala of the Ballettschule Theater Basel in works by Craig Davidson and Richard Wherlock, and in her final semester she worked with Igor Bacovich, danced in "Travellous" by Iratxe Ansa and "Chäs" by Heinz Spoerli.

At Ballett am Rhein, she performed in works such as "Rubies" by George Balanchine, "Enemy in the Figure" by William Forsythe, "Baal" by Aszure Barton, "A Kiss to the World" by Dominique Dumais, "Krabat" and "Surrogate Cities" by Demis Volpi, "Biolographie" and "Sleeping Beauty" by Bridget Breiner, "Vers un pays sage" by Jean-Christophe Maillot, and "Boléro" by Richard Siegal. She also appeared as Sophia in Bridget Breiner's "Ruß – Eine Geschichte von Aschenputtel", in "Empire Noir" by David Dawson, in "Threshold of a Fall" by Lesley Telford, and as the "Young Girl" in the creation "Omelas" by Stina Quagebeur.