Kota Sato

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 an RBC Apprentice in 2012 and was promoted to Second Soloist in 2019.  

Most recently, Kota debuted as Uncle Nikolai in The Nutcracker and performed in the world premiere of Procession, choreographed by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. His repertoire includes Rothbart and Benno in Swan Lake, Peter/The Nutcracker and an Icicle in The Nutcracker, Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty, Golden Slave/Faun in Nijinsky, Espada in Don Quixote, Raj/The Caterpillar in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Brother Clown in The Winter’s Tale and L’Ivrogne in Le Petit Prince. His repertoire also includes Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Cinderella, Onegin, Anna Karenina, The Merry Widow, MADDADDAM, Frame by Frame, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pinocchio, Manon, The Dream, The Four Seasons, The Second Detail, Approximate Sonata 2016, Anima Animus, The Man in Black, Carousel (A Dance), Symphony #9, Emergence, Angels’ Atlas, Elite Syncopations, Jewels, Symphony in C, After the Rain, Concerto, Suite en Blanc, Passion, Rhapsody, Emma Bovary, UtopiVerse, Bolero, Being and Nothingness, Skyward, Crepuscular, as seen from before and King’s Fall.  

Kota was awarded the Patron Award of Merit in 2019.  

1. Nijinsky
2. Onegin
3. Anna Karenina
4. The Man in Black
5. The Four Seasons

Patron Award of Merit (2019)

Peter Dwyer Scholarship (2011)