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Berlin Trip

Mar 11, 2018
2 min

Berlin Trip

We made a family trip to Berlin last week. I started to remember the lifestyle in Germany and it felt so nostalgic. I got my first job at the Hamburg Ballet when I was 17. It was 2 or 3 years after the Berlin Wall fell. Being a young ballerina I was focusing on dancing so much (almost too much) that I was ignorant of a lot of bigger things that were happening at that time. But when I think back, it was a wonderful time for Germany and the world: the Cold War was ending and

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Prix de Lausanne memory

Feb 1, 2018
1 min

Prix de Lausanne memory

The Prix de Lausanne is currently happening. I appeared in this competition when I was 16 and I made it to the semifinals which I was not really happy about at that moment. l couldn’t dance as well as I would have liked to and I really wanted to make it to the finals, but now it is all sweet memories and it was just the beginning.... I was just being so young and naive. However for sure this competition opened doors for me: I got a scholarship to enter the Hamburg Ballet scho

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My 16 years old story

Jan 20, 2018
2 min

My 16 years old story

Here you are seeing the people who I loved the most in early 90s. My Mom, Dad, Brother, 2 Grandmas, Grandpa (Grandpa George was working & not in this pic) Ballet Teacher and friends. They came to see me off at the Nagano train station before I left to study at the Hamburg Ballet school in Germany. Now people talk about going to Mars ☄️but I felt like I was going to the moon or something at that time. Also, today young people going to study abroad is not rare. But back then,

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A little Meggy :)

Dec 3, 2017
1 min

A little Meggy :)

Here is baby me dancing in front of my family in a private dining room in a restaurant. I must have been about 2 as It looks like I still have a diaper on😋. I have always loved to dance and my family was my first audience and has always been my number one fans since whenever I started dancing. Looking at this I remember nostalgically my grandma’s voice saying “very good!”「上手だねー」or ”you are so special “「特別だねー」lots of / almost too many compliments and my grandpa ‘s grin. And n

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Childhood Memory

Nov 29, 2017
1 min

Childhood Memory

In this picture, I must be around 5. And I am with my mom, auntie and grandma❤️ I feel very privileged to have had the experience to see so many performances and I saw many of the best as a little girl. This was a time with no internet or YouTube, so going to the theater was a big deal and seeing live dance was such a special event. I remember that we all would dress up nicely and take a 3 hour train ride to Tokyo from my hometown, Nagano, then eat something light before et

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David Dawson's technique matched my abilities..

Nov 20, 2017
1 min

David Dawson's technique matched my abilities..

David Dawson‘s “A Million Kisses to my Skin“ back in 2000 at the Dutch National Ballet. I believe this was David's first major choreography and the leotard designer Yumiko Takeshima 's first costume design. I remember that dancing David’s style was incredibly challenging but I had so much fun pushing my limits. His steps were very classical in a sense but the movement was stretched to extremes. I felt his technique matched my abilities, it just felt great dancing in it .... f

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Try leotards... after so many years

Nov 7, 2017
1 min

Try leotards... after so many years

Anyone that knows me in the dance studio can probably tell you I never wear leotards. It’s somehow not been my thing for a long time. But today after spending lunch and the afternoon with my old colleague and dear friend, Yumiko Takeshima who’s a designer/co-founder of “Yumiko” I felt like I wanted one! So I tried a few on. She was in the town this week to open her new boutique on 214 W.39th Street. New York. I remember back in the day when we were both working at the Dutch N

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Good time with dear friends, Yumiko and Jessica