{"id":57178,"date":"2018-12-29T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T02:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57178"},"modified":"2018-12-29T02:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T02:39:13","slug":"sono-osato-japanese-american-ballet-star-is-dead-at-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57178","title":{"rendered":"Sono Osato, Japanese-American Ballet Star, Is Dead at 99"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sono Osato, Japanese-American Ballet Star, Is Dead at 99<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-12-26<\/p>\n

Richard Goldstein<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSono Osato<\/a> rehearsing a number from the Broadway musical \u201cOn the Town<\/a>\u201d with the show\u2019s choreographer, Jerome Robbins<\/a>, in 1944. It was one of two hit musicals in which Ms. Osato appeared in the 1940s.
\nEileen Darby\/Graphic House<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Sono Osato<\/a>, a Japanese-American dancer who toured the world with the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo<\/a>, performed with the Ballet Theater in New York and then gained acclaim on Broadway in the World War II<\/a>-era musicals \u201cOne Touch of Venus<\/a>\u201d and \u201cOn the Town<\/a>,\u201d was found dead early Wednesday at her home in Manhattan<\/a>. She was 99.<\/p>\n

Her death was confirmed by her sons, Niko and Antonio Elmaleh.<\/p>\n

In the 1930s, Ms. Osato was a groundbreaking presence in Col. Wassily de Basil\u2019s<\/a> Ballets Russes, the world\u2019s most widely known ballet company. She was the company\u2019s youngest dancer when she joined, at 14; she was also its first performer of Japanese descent…<\/p>\n

…Although she was born and raised in the Midwest<\/a>, Ms. Osato seemed an incongruous choice to play Ivy Smith, billed as the \u201call-American girl,\u201d in \u201cOn the Town.\u201d Her father, Shoji, was a native of Japan<\/a>, and her mother, Frances, was of French-Irish background…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sono Osato, a Japanese-American dancer who toured the world with the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, performed with the Ballet Theater in New York and then gained acclaim on Broadway in the World War II-era musicals \u201cOne Touch of Venus\u201d and \u201cOn the Town,\u201d was found dead early Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,1245,8,20,25],"tags":[19921,6725,2640,29192,29193],"class_list":["post-57178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-new-york-times","tag-richard-goldstein","tag-sono-osato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57179,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions\/57179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}