Born in Nagano, Japan, Reika graduated from the London Studio Centre and has danced with Cape Town City Ballet and Victor Ullate Ballet. She received 3rd place in the All Japan Ballet Competition and was a finalist in the Cape Town International Ballet Competition. She danced Principal roles with Cape Town City Ballet, including Coppélia and Orpheus in the Underworld and toured all over the world with Victor Ullate Ballet to places such as Israel, Jordan, Peru, Italy, France and Spain.

In September 2014, Reika moved to Perth to join West Australian Ballet where she danced many lead roles including First Violin in Concerto Barocco, Cinderella in Jayne Smeulder’s Cinderella, Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby and Effy in La Sylphide.

Reika has also choreographed for 2018’s Genesis season, creating Kindred with Ana Gallardo Lobaina.

In 2019 Reika retired from dancing and was appointed as the Company’s Assistant Rehearsal Director where she worked with Andries Weidemann on Peter and the Wolf in 2019 and The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie in 2020 for the AWESOME Arts Festival. Other highlights include working with Krzysztof Pastor on Light and Shadow in 2020 and with Natalie Weir on 4Seasons in 2021.

Reika was promoted to the position of Rehearsal Director in December 2021.

Multi-award-winning dancer Gakuro Matsui re-joined West Australian Ballet as a Principal dancer in 2023.

The internationally recognised and critically acclaimed dancer, born in Japan, first joined West Australian Ballet in 2016 as a Soloist before rising to the position of Principal that same year.

During his time at Australia’s longest-established ballet company, Matsui performed in numerous lead roles, including: Jay Gatsby in David Nixon’s The Great Gatsby; Romeo in Youri Vamos’ Romeo and Juliet; James and Gurn in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide; Basilio in Lucette Aldous’ restaging of Don Quixote; the Prince in Aurélien Scannella, Sandy Delasalle-Scannella, and Jayne Smeulder’s The Nutcracker; and, Sebastian in Krzysztof Pastor´s Swan Lake as a Guest Principal.

Carina was born in Perth and began her dance training at age four. At age 17, she was accepted into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and completed two years of full-time training as well as achieving her Solo Seal Award in 2014. At the RAD Festival in 2014, Carina was awarded the Pre-Professional award and was offered a Young Artist contract with West Australian Ballet for the following year.

In 2015, she joined West Australian Ballet and in 2016 was promoted to corps de ballet, and demo soloist in 2018. Carina has performed multiple lead roles with the company including Clara in The Nutcracker, Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, The Sylph in La Sylphide, Mina in Krzysztof Pastor’s Dracula, The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Alice in Septime Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland), Swanhilda in Greg Horsman’s Copelia and Odile in Krzysztof Pastor’s Swan Lake.

After retiring from the stage in December 2023, Carina has begun undertaking a Bachelor of Physiotherapy at the University of Notre Dame Australia, a career path that she is extremely passionate about. She looks forward to bringing together this new knowledge, along with her past knowledge as an elite athlete, to help people find their body’s full movement potential.