{"id":14772,"date":"2026-07-17T03:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkballet2.websitedevsystem.com\/team\/ryo-kato\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:33","slug":"ryo-kato","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/team\/ryo-kato\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryo Kato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Saitama, Japan, Ryo Kato trained at the National Conservatory of Dance School in Portugal and was a Soloist of State Ballet of Georgia in 2012. He joined Hong Kong Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2015 and was named Soloist in 2016. With Hong Kong Ballet, Kato has danced featured and main roles including Prince in Kohler\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, Blue Bird in Harvey\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>\u00a0and Paris in van Dantzig\u2019s\u00a0<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>. He has also danced in Balanchine\u2019s\u00a0<em>Serenade<\/em>\u00a0and Fei Bo\u2019s\u00a0<em>Shenren Chang<\/em>. Kato was a finalist at Prix de Lausanne, Switzerland in 2012. He won a gold medal at Tanzolymp Berlin in 2011 and first prize at both the NBA Ballet Competition and Tokyo All Ballet Competition in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-14772","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=14772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}