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She was born on August 31, 1979 in Fukuoka prefecture. For many years, she spent her time oversease studying dance, fitness, and art to develop her own unique style. She entered the pole dancing world when while living in Europe, she watched the circus and became fascinated with the acrobatic nature of their dance. She is now considered as someone who lit the fire on the Japanese pole dance community. While living in New York, she studied theater dance, African dance, and belly dancing as well as several fitness programs, beginning with yoga and swimming. In Europe, she was a designer and performance artist in Brussels and London and in Japan, she studied Stott Pilates. Furthermore, she also studied body art, tattooing, and music composition.
A statuesque 175cm Asian beauty, she also succeeds as a model. With an exceptional sense of artistry, she displays a confident and powerful stage performance that is filled with originality making her style impossible to imitate. Being born an artist, she walked the artist’s path from childhood. And now, she has become the charismatic representative of the Japanese pole dance community.
In June 2006, she returned to Japan and began her pole dance school.? Immediately upon her return, she received a wave of media appearance requests including multiple TV appearances such as 「Tensei Shingo」,「King’s Brunch」、「Utaban」, artist promotional videos such as from DJ OZMA, glove, AI, and featured in magazines such as「Tarzan」、「VOCE」、「InRed」、「Metropolis」、「Body Plus」、「Ryuuko Tsushin」.She is also a regular performer at Shinkiba 「Ageha」and Tokyo Bay Cruise Ship「Himiko」in addition to performances at multiple events including the「Ocean’s 13」release party, at Fuji Speedway, and for Space Shower TV. Furthermore, she designs her own line of dance wear and operates Japan’s first pole import, sales, rental company.
In the one year since her return, she has grown her large pole dance school to include a total of 500 students and in June 2007, she opened Asia’s largest pole dance studio「Art Flow」on Japanese magazines and TV shows but the American media also attended . Not only was she featured the opening, spreading the news around the world.
Her accomplishments are also international. In the US, she received an offer to be the pole dance instructor in the country’s No.1 fitness gym [Crunch], represented Asia in the 2004 Las Vegas Dance Showcase and in June 2008, International workshop tour in Sweden, Finland and France.
