More about Yoshi

Training

Ballet, Jazz & Modern
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (Full-time Program)
  • Dance Theater of Harlem (Scholarship)
Tap
  • Henry Lee Tang Dance Studio
Ballroom
  • American Ballroom Institute (Scholarship)
  • Sandra Cameron Dance Studio
  • Dance Sport
  • Ed Britain
  • Esther don
  • Bill & Wendy Davis
Adagio
  • Pierre Dulaine & Ivan Marceau
Argentine Tango
  • Dance Manhattan
  • Mariera Franganero
  • Diego DeFargo
  • Matin Jezer

Teaching Experience

Ballroom & Argentine Tango
  • President, Japan Social Dance Club (1995-)
  • Pierre Dulaine Dance Club (1999-2003)
  • Japanese American Association (2000-2003)
  • Riva’s Dance Connection(2000-2002)
  • Theater Shiki (2003-)
  • School of Music Osaka & Fukuoka(2003-2004)
  • Chacott Dance Studio (2003-2007)
  • Noa Dance Academy (2003-2006)
  • Culture School Tokyu Seminar BE (2003-)
  • Shochiku Dance Plaza (2004-2005)
  • Roppongi Hills Arteligent School (2004-2005)
  • Ongakuza (2005)
  • Yomiuri Nihon Culture Center Ebisu (2005-2007)
  • Hotel Ibis (Roppongi) Special Workshop (2005-2007)
  • Meirokai Dance Club of the Visually impared (2005-)
  • Goldman Sachs Dance Club at Roppongi Hills (2007-)
Tap
  • New York University
  • Henry Street Settlement Arts
  • Mariko Fujii Tap City (Tokyo, workshop)

Union

  • Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG)
  • American Federal TV & Radio (AFTRA)
  • Actor’s Equity (AEA)
  • Nihon Argentine Tango Dance Professional Association (NAPTA)

Certificates

  • Imperial Society Teachers of Dancing (ISTD)
  • Modern Ballroom & Latin America Dancing (licentiate)

Performance

Dance Companies
  • American Ballroom Theater
  • Dance Theater of Harlem Workshop Ensemble
  • Foot & Fiddle Dance Company
  • Ballet Long Island
  • Huntington Ballet
  • New York Renaissance Festival
  • Deja vu Dance Theater (Bolero)
  • Henry Lee Tang Dancers
Musicals
  • Wizard of Oz (Radio City Musical Hall/U.S. national tour)
  • Annie Get Your Gun (European tour)
  • Mame (U.S. national tour)
  • Anything Goes (Birmingham Theater/Theater Fest)
  • How to Date (Theater Apple Tokyo)
Ballroom & Argentine Tango
  • American Ballroom Theater
  • Tango Festa 2000 (New York Town Hall)
  • Natural Ball (Lindy Hop: Atlanta)
  • Swing Week (Lindy Hop: Macy’s, NY)
  • La National (New York Tango Cafe)
  • Viennese Opera Ball ( Waldorf Astoria Hotel, NY)
Cabaret
  • VillageGate (Tap)
  • Caesars Hotel: Atlantic City (choreography)
  • Club Aleman: Mexico City (classical Japanese dance)
TV & Video
  • New Yorkese (TV)
  • John Michael Montgomery Music Video
  • Far East (Ballroom instructor, TV Channel 13)
  • Door-knocking Cooking Show (Tango dancer)
  • Other TV commercials
Play
  • In My Father’s House (Actors Play Theater)
  • Yuuzuru -The Evening Crane- (Samuel Packet Theater)
  • Ahmed Mamoud for Love (Creative Space Theater)
Choreography
  • Musica “Valentino” (New York)
  • TV Commercial Ebara Yakiniku no Tare
  • Japan Social Dance Theater
  • Japn Social Dance Club
  • Movie “Shanghai Waltz”
  • Fuji TV drama “Girl Friends”