#6 Rond de Jambe
Rond de Jambe - foot travels from the front to the back called "en dehors", and foot travels from the back to the front called "en dedans". I’ve made a short video to break down the movements of ballet. Each teacher uses their own vocabulary to explain the same technique, but a different method to guide their students to proper technique. This is my method of feeling the body in a way that connects the brain to body. I hope you enjoy this short video to practice basic ballet movement. Kana Miyamoto: Began her dance training at age three in Japan. Though she loved ballet, she maintained a stronger interest in performing as a jazz contemporary dancer. She moved to America in 1997 to continue her dance training and career. After her relocation to the U.S.A, she performed throughout the United States with KIN Dance Company, AnNamx Dance Production, Vox Lumiere, and most recently, Ken Dance Company (KDC) where she is both a dancer and assistant director with founder and artistic director, Kenji Yamaguchi. As a dancer in Kenji’s works, she was described by the Los Angeles Times as “elegantly tethered to an earthbound sorrow.” Her solo work has also been called “gripping and soul-searching.” Kana developed her own special project, Kana’s Japan Relief Fund, “Dance From The Soul,” which was set up for Sendai-City in Japan to replant trees and flowers in the city where they had been uprooted and destroyed by earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011. Since then she has been visiting Sendai-City each year to help keep communications open with the people who live there, and hopefully aid in the re-creation and re-development within the city. She also works as a stage director/choreographer/dancer for J’s Hair Studio & Academy Inc. for their ISSE, IBS shows in U.S and Japan tour of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Mexico and Paris in 2017. She has been taught ballet and Contemporary jazz workshop at Avex Artist Academy in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and other local studios in Japan, Big Dance Center in New Delhi, India. She teaches ballet locally at Edge Performing Arts Center, Hama Dance Center and Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles. Instagram: @kanakdc
Rond de Jambe - foot travels from the front to the back called "en dehors", and foot travels from the back to the front called "en dedans". I’ve made a short video to break down the movements of ballet. Each teacher uses their own vocabulary to explain the same technique, but a different method to guide their students to proper technique. This is my method of feeling the body in a way that connects the brain to body. I hope you enjoy this short video to practice basic ballet movement. Kana Miyamoto: Began her dance training at age three in Japan. Though she loved ballet, she maintained a stronger interest in performing as a jazz contemporary dancer. She moved to America in 1997 to continue her dance training and career. After her relocation to the U.S.A, she performed throughout the United States with KIN Dance Company, AnNamx Dance Production, Vox Lumiere, and most recently, Ken Dance Company (KDC) where she is both a dancer and assistant director with founder and artistic director, Kenji Yamaguchi. As a dancer in Kenji’s works, she was described by the Los Angeles Times as “elegantly tethered to an earthbound sorrow.” Her solo work has also been called “gripping and soul-searching.” Kana developed her own special project, Kana’s Japan Relief Fund, “Dance From The Soul,” which was set up for Sendai-City in Japan to replant trees and flowers in the city where they had been uprooted and destroyed by earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011. Since then she has been visiting Sendai-City each year to help keep communications open with the people who live there, and hopefully aid in the re-creation and re-development within the city. She also works as a stage director/choreographer/dancer for J’s Hair Studio & Academy Inc. for their ISSE, IBS shows in U.S and Japan tour of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Mexico and Paris in 2017. She has been taught ballet and Contemporary jazz workshop at Avex Artist Academy in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and other local studios in Japan, Big Dance Center in New Delhi, India. She teaches ballet locally at Edge Performing Arts Center, Hama Dance Center and Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles. Instagram: @kanakdc