Michio Itō (伊藤 道郎, Itō Michio, 13 April,1892 - 6 November 1961) was a Japanese dancer who developed his own choreography style in Europe and America. He left Japan as a teenager to study classic music in Paris. After learning musical theory Dalcroze eurhythmics, Hellerau in Germany, he started to explore modern dance. He was an associate of William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Angna Enters, Isamu Noguchi, Louis Horst, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Lillian Powell, Vladimir Rosing, Pauline Koner, Lester Horton and others. He danced with the Anglo-Indian dancer Roshanara in 1917,^[1] and with French-Indian dancer Nyota Inyoka in 1923-1924.^[2][3]

He was interned and eventually deported from the United States after the outbreak of World War II.