Kim Sagami is a Chicago-based ballet teacher, répétiteur, and executive director

of The Gerald Arpino Foundation. Her teaching style reflects the influences of

Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino as well as mentors Maggie Black, Hilary

Cartwright (Yoga Narada founder), and Alonzo King (LINES).

She danced professionally with The Joffrey Ballet under the directorship of

Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino for fourteen years. Ms. Sagami earned an

architecture degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2004. She

continues to use architectural concepts to inform her students on body alignment

and structure.

Teaching credits include Joffrey Academy of Dance, Visceral Dance Center,

Roosevelt University(CCPA), Chicago Ballet Arts, Ballet 5:8, Fort Wayne Ballet,

Chicago High School of the Arts, Regional Dance America MidStates Festival.

Film credits include the 1987 film of the Joffrey Ballet’s historic restoration of

Nijinsky’s lost Le Sacre du Printemps and the film of BILLBOARDS, a full-length

rock ballet with music by Prince. Musical Theater credits include the national US

touring company of The Phantom of the Opera.

Ms. Sagami’s teaching certificates include the ABT National Training Curriculum,

and certifications in Zena Rommett Floor Barre™ and Yoga Narada. Ms. Sagami

also serves as répétiteur for the Edward Stierle Family Trust.