Beth Mochizuki is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Asian American Ballet Project. She is a biracial Asian American from Clovis, California who studied ballet under Diane Mosier of New England Civic Ballet. Beth danced professionally for 20 years at companies such as Ballet Rhode Island, Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre, Ithaca Ballet, and State Street Ballet. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies with a focus on Performance and Representation from Tufts University, where she received the Ted Shapiro Prize and highest thesis honors for her paper “The Asian American Experience in Ballet”. Beth has taught ballet in New York, California, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, including at Tony Williams Dance Center (TWDC) where she is currently the Ballet Division Coordinator. She has staged classical repertoire at TWDC, School of Ballet RI, Dance Theater of New England, South Shore Ballet Theatre, and City Ballet of Boston, where she was the Ballet Master and later the Assistant Director of the Urban Nutcracker from 2013-2021. Beth founded AABP in 2022 and has staged excerpts from Sleeping Beauty and La Bayadere for the company. She is active in the AAPI and Boston arts community as a NACHMO Boston mentor, a Reagle Music Theater panelist, and an ASPIRE presenter. She is an alumni of NAAC Boston’s Mentorship/Sponsorship program and was featured in 2024 as an artist in WBUR’s The Makers Series.
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