Reiko started ballet at the age of five in her hometown of Kobe, Japan. After ten years of training in Japan, she joined The Australian Ballet School in 2003. In 2006 Reiko made her debut with The Australian Ballet in Giselle dancing the peasant pas des deux. Since then, Reiko has danced a handful of critically acclaimed principal roles with the company, including Clara in Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker, and the titles roles of Paquita and Matjash Mrozewski’s Semele. Reiko was promoted to Soloist in 2010.

Repertoire highlights

• Coppelia 2010
• Alexei Ratmansky's Scuola di ballo 2009
• Stanton Welch's The Sleeping Beauty 2009
• Suite en blanc 2009
• Graeme Murphy’s Firebird 2009
• Semele 2008
• Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake 2008
• Paquita 2007
• Don Quixote 2007
• La Favorita 2007
• Spring Waters 2007
• Les Présages 2007
• Peter Wright's The Nutcracker 2007
• Giselle 2006
• The Dancers Company tour 2006
• Raymonda 2006