{"id":11749,"date":"2010-05-14T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2010-05-14T00:18:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T04:18:47","slug":"yes-new-york-has-japanese-belly-dancers-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/14\/yes-new-york-has-japanese-belly-dancers-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, New York has Japanese belly dancers, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By JQ Magazine<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/a> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here<\/em><\/strong><\/a> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nahoko Sugiyama discovered her niche at an early age. As a little girl growing up in Tokyo, she imitated the moves of the Japanese idols she saw on TV. As a teenager, a penchant for clubbing set the foundation to become a dancer, and in her twenties she took up Oriental (belly) dance, Quickly becoming a popular draw through professional appearances, she decided to make a career out of this exotic form of expression.<\/p>\n

Moving to New York in 2006 for more in-depth training, Sugiyama joined the Mosaic Dance Theater<\/strong><\/a> Company a year later. \u201cOne of my teachers in here is a choreographer for this company, therefore I joined it,\u201d she explains. \u201cWe have a wide range of Middle Eastern dance numbers, not only Oriental dance, which makes us unique. We focus on theater shows, [and] have big theater shows both in New Jersey and New York every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

This Friday, she will perform at Manhattan\u2019s Arena Event Space with six other dancers as part of the Alternative Belly Dance Show.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0 Nahoko Sugiyama discovered her niche at an early age. As a little girl growing up in Tokyo, she imitated the moves of the Japanese idols she saw on TV. As a teenager, a penchant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[75,53,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-events","category-interviewprofile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t