Born in Fukushima, Japan, Reina Fuchigami trained at the Hitomi Takeuchi Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School. As a student she danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet in Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Daphnis and Chloë, The Dream and The Nutcracker. She won first prize at the 20th All Japan Ballet competition and Japan Grand Prix, 2009. She joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2012 and was promoted to First Artist in 2016.

REPERTORY INCLUDES
Frederick Ashton:Les Rendezvous (pas de trois), Façade ('Scotch Rhapsody'), Dante Sonata, La Fille mal gardée (Chickens, Lise's Friends), The Dream (Mustardseed), Enigma Variations
George Balanchine: Serenade, Theme and Variations
David Bintley: Aladdin ('Diamond'), 'Still Life' at the Penguin Café (Great Auk), Tombeaux and Carmina burana
Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations ('The Golden Hours'), Romeo and Juliet (Friend)
Jessica Lang:Wink
Alexander Whitley: Kin.
Peter Wright:The Nutcracker (Clara, Mirlitons), Swan Lake (Italian Princess, Cygnet, pas de trois), Coppélia (Swanilda's Friends)