Lisa Kamiya

Lisa Kamiya began dancing at the age of three. Throughout her training she has received first-place awards from the National Ballet Competition, the Connecticut Classic, and the Japan International Ballet Festival, and was honored with the Youth Grand Prix Award at the YAGP New York regional. She performed a variation from Giselle on the Lincoln Center stage during the YAGP Final Round and has been awarded scholarships to Bolshoi Ballet, the European School of Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. In winter 2025 she performed as a guest artist with Delaware Ballet as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. She is in her fourth year of full-time training at Ellison Ballet in New York under Artistic Director Edward Ellison and its faculty.

With Columbia Classical Ballet

Guest artist in Don Quixote, October 2026, at the Koger Center for the Arts.