Makino Hayashi

Makino Hayashi is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker based in Portland, OR. She was born in Kumamoto, Japan where she began ballet at Kumamoto Ballet Studio at the age of nine. She moved to the U.S. when she was nineteen years old and danced professionally with Colorado Ballet from 2002-2008. She has guested with several companies in the U.S. and Japan, and has danced with Oregon Ballet Theatre since 2010 where she performed in primarily soloist and principal roles. She retired from OBT in June 2023 and has been choreographing professionally and teaching ballet and contemporary for all levels since 2013.

Her choreographic work Black Earth was created for Hunter Noack’s 'In a landscape’ Classical Music in the Wild throughout the state of Oregon. Also, Black Earth was performed at choreographer competition 'SzólóDuó’ in Budapest, Hungary in 2020. She choreographed KIZUNA for ‘Ten Tiny Community Healing Dances' for the city arts program in Portland, OR in 2021. What do you see... was originally choreographed for ‘OBT Closer’ in 2018 and performed again for ‘Union PDX' in 2022. Inside Voice was choreographed for Boulder Ballet ‘New Moves’ and world premiered in Boulder, CO in February 2023. She choreographed Seven Wonder for ‘Oregon Origins Project II’ in Portland, OR in May 2023. The Rose was choreographed for Oregon Ballet Theatre ‘Made in Portland 2023’.

Her film Beauty in the Nature was apart of the 2018 ‘VIDEOSKIN’ film festival in Yukon Canada, ‘2019 Lady Filmmakers Festival’ in Beverly Hills, CA and ‘Moving Images video dance festival’ in 2021. Breathing was shared at ‘We Are The Moving Stories’. Beauty in you was apart of the ‘BB Dance Film Fest’ in Boulder, CO in 2022. And The Massage 2022 was apart of the ‘Artists Climate Collective’ Art 2 Action in 2022.