Yuko Aoyama Japanese Dance

YUKO AOYAMA

…when a young maiden becomes one with the flowers.

MEET YUKO AOYAMA WHO WILL GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN CLASSICAL DANCE FROM AN AUTHENTIC MASTER

Miss Aoyama also gives recitals & choreographs modern Japanese folk dance

FUJIMUSUME, SHIYOKUMI and RENGISHI derives from Kabuki and was very popular during the Edo period.
Fujimusume means Wisteria maiden. It is when a young maiden becomes one with the flowers.

Shiyokumi means salt collector. While a peasant girl is out collecting salt from the sea , a Samurai War Lord is returning from battle on his horse along the seafront. They fall in love but since she is from a different class their love can never be consummated, so he gives her his Eboshi (hat) as a token of his love and his green cloak before he rides off.

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YUKO AOYAMA

She is renowned for her repertoire and her presentation

She possesses one of the most elaborate kimono and obi collections in the west

Miss Aoyama has developed a new form of modern Japanese folk dance which has had universal acclaim and is also a member of "British Equity".

Miss Aoyama is one of the few masters of Japanese classical dance in the United Kingdom.

She studied in Tokyo since the age of 8 under the tutelage of Senichro Nishikawa who was one of the most prominent proponents of Classical Japanese dance and who only accepted a few promising young people as students.

She studied with him for ten years before being permitted to dance in public.

Miss Aoyama has given recitals in London, Rome, Paris, Tokyo, and Athens and is recognised as one of the foremost proponents of Classical Japanese dance in the west.

She is now in a position to offer to teach this unique dance style to a few special applicants.

She also can present recitals to corporate clients and can choreograph and produce Japanese dance themes for private functions as well as corporate ones.