Chie Kudo received her training in Japan, under the direction of Shizuko Tachibana. In 1997 she joined the New National Theater in Tokyo, and performed under the direction of Asami Maki. Her repertoire includes Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, Paquita, Roland Retit’s La Chauve-Souris, Balanchine’s Theme and Variation and Symphony in C, Les Sylphides, La Sylphide, La Bayadere, Raymonda, Romeo & Juliet, Ashton's Cinderella, Manon and more.

Ms. Kudo has won numerous competitions in Japan including 1st place in the Yokohama Ballet Competition and first place in the 60th Tokyo-Newspaper All Japan Ballet Competition. She has also won prizes in Japan including the Mainichi-Newspaper Prize, the Yomiuri-Newspaper Prize, and the Tokyo-Newspaper prize, which were all held in the Saitama Ballet Competition. In 2009, she was invited to the XIV International Ballet Festival of Miami, where she danced the Coppelia pas de deux.

Ms. Kudo joined California Ballet Company in 2006 as a Soloist, and was promoted to Principal in 2008. In 2011, following her dazzling performance as Odette at the end of CBC's 43rd season, Ms. Kudo was promoted to Ballerina. While with CBC, Ms. Kudo has danced the featured roles of Snow Queen, Dewdrop and the Sugarplum Fairy (The Nutcracker); Mina (Dracula); Fairy Godmother (Cindrella); the Pas de Deux and Prelude Variation (Les Sylphides), Peasant Pas de Deux (Giselle), Odette (Swan Lake), and Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty).

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