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“Peter Pan (Yosuke Mino) is calm and cool as a hip-hop mogul.”
– The Winnipeg Sun, 2006
Born in Kanazawa, Japan, Mino began his dance training at the Akiko Kanamaru Ballet Studio. He moved to Canada in 1998 to train at the RWB School Professional Division and graduated 1999. A year after graduating, he became an apprentice of the RWB and accompanied the Company on their Asian Tour.
In 2001/02, Mino spent one season with The Boston Ballet and performed as ‘Goro’ in Stanton Welch’s Madame Butterfly, as well as roles in Rodeo and Corybantic Ecstasies by Christopher Wheeldon.
Mino returned to the RWB for the 2002/03 season as a corps member and was promoted to second soloist a couple years later. Most recently, Mino has been promoted to soloist for the 2007/08 season. While dancing with the RWB, Mino has performed many memorable roles including the ‘Jester’ in Swan Lake, ‘Blue Bird Pas de Deux’ in The Sleeping Beauty and ‘Jack Seward’ in Dracula. Some other works Mino has performed with the RWB include Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Kylián’s Symphony in D as well as Mauricio Wainrot’s Carmina Burana and Rudi van Dantzig’s Romeo & Juliet.
For the 2006/07 season, Mino danced the title role of ‘Peter’ for the world premiere of Jorden Morris’ Peter Pan, played the ‘Dog Catcher’ in Val Caniparoli’s A Cinderella Story and was featured as ‘Papageno’ in Mark Godden’s The Magic Flute.
Mino participated in the 2006 Jackson International Ballet Competition. His screen credits include ‘The Goblin’ in YTV’s children’s series The Toy Castle and the films One Last Dance and Without a Word staring Patrick Swayze.
Mino will begin the season as a ‘Toreador’ in Carmen, The Passion. He will also reprise the role of ‘Papageno’ when the Company performs The Magic Flute in the US.
“Yosuke Mino brings out the boyishness of the title character with athletic precision, inspiring an audible gasp of delight from the audience for one particular, spine-twisting leap.”
– Winnipeg Free Press, 2006
“Another crowd-pleaser on opening night was Yosuke Mino playing the Jester with mercurial pirouettes and leaps. Mino brings a lot of mischievous spirit to the role and carves out the air on the stage like a jet turbine engine.”
– Winnipeg Free Press, 2003
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