Kota Sato was born in Tokyo, Japan and trained at the Shimura Ballet School in Japan and Canada’s National Ballet School. Kota joined The National Ballet of Canada as a RBC Apprentice in 2012 and was promoted to Second Soloist in 2019.
Recently, Kota made his debut as Peter/The Nutcracker in The Nutcracker and performed in the world premiere of Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM and the Canadian premiere of David Dawson’s Anima Animus. He has also danced such roles as Rothbart in Swan Lake, Levin in Anna Karenina, Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty, Brother Clown in The Winter’s Tale, an Icicle in The Nutcracker, the Golden Slave/the Faun in Nijinsky and L’Ivrogne in Le Petit Prince. His repertoire also includes Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Cinderella, Onegin, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Merry Widow, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pinocchio, Manon, The Dream, The Four Seasons, The Second Detail, Approximate Sonata 2016, The Man in Black, Carousel (A Dance), Symphony #9, Emergence, Angels’ Atlas, Elite Syncopations, Symphony in C, After the Rain, Concerto, Frame by Frame, Being and Nothingness, Skyward, Crepuscular and as seen from before.
Kota was awarded the Patron Award of Merit in 2019.
