Makino Hayashi

INSTRUCTOR - classical, contemporary

Makino Hayashi is a choreographer, based in Portland, OR. She was born in Kumamoto, Japan where she began ballet at Kumamoto Ballet Studio. She moved to the U.S. and has danced professionally with Colorado Ballet from 2002-2008 and with Oregon Ballet Theatre since 2010 and has performed primarily soloist and principal roles. She retired from OBT in 2023. She has guested with several companies in the U.S. and Japan. She has been choreographing and teaching contemporary and ballet at all levels since 2014. Her recent choreographic work ‘The Message 2024’ has world premiered for Oregon Ballet Theatre Made in Portland in Portland, OR in June 2024. She also choreographed ‘The Rose’ in 2023, ‘What do you see…’ in 2018, and ‘Brothers and a Sister’ in 2014 for OBT. ‘What do you see…’ was performed for Women Choreographers PNW in May 2024 and Union PDX in 2022 in Portland, OR. She choreographed ’Inside Voice’ for Boulder Ballet New Moves in Boulder, CO, and ’Seven Wonder’ for Oregon Origins Project II in Portland, OR in 2023. ‘KIZUNA’ for Ten Tiny Community Healing Dances for the city arts program in Portland, OR in 2021. ‘Black Earth’ was performed for 'In a landscape' Classical Music in the Wild throughout the state of Oregon by Hunter Noack in 2019 and was also performed at the choreographer competition SzólóDuó in Budapest, Hungary in 2020. She will be choreographing for Nevada Ballet Theatre in 2025 spring. She has been choreographing for students since 2018. Her work ‘Footprints’ for the Inspire Dance Centre senior group got into the top 12 at the YAGP Huntington Beach, CA competition. ‘Be You’ was performed for OBT2 performance OBT2 Raw Pieces of Eight in 2021. Makino’s featured dancing roles include: “Rassemblement” and “Jardi tancat“ by Nacho Duato, “In the Middle Somewhat Elevated” and “The Second Detail” by William Forsythe, “Falling Angels” by Jiri Kylian, “The Lost Dance” by Matjash Mrozewski, “Instinctual Confidence” by Darrell Grand Moutrie, “Choros” and “Beautiful Decay” by Nicolo Fonte, “Terra” and “Petal” by Helen Pickett, “SculptedClouds” by Jennifer Archibald, “The Present Tense” by Rena Butler, Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Christopher Stowell, “Napoli” by August Bournonville, Gamzatti in “La Byadere”, Mercedes in “Don Quixote”, Odalisques in “Le Corsaire”, Dewdrop and Arabian by George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker", Old Madge in “La Sylphide”. She has guested with; Washington Ballet in Washington DC, Festival Ballet in Rhode Island, The State Street Ballet in Santa Barbara CA, Okamoto Ballet in Fukuoka Japan. As a filmmaker, her film ‘Beauty in you’ was screened at BB Dance Film Fest in Boulder, CO in 2022. ‘The Massage 2022’ at Artists Climate Collective Art 2 Action in 2022. ‘Beauty in the Nature’ at the Moving Images videodance festival in 2021, the 2019 Lady Filmmakers Festival in Beverly Hills, CA in 2019, and the VIDEOSKIN film festival in Yukon Canada in 2018.