March 25 (Reuters) – South Korea’s distinctive Ok-pop music style has swept the world lately, its catchy tunes and flashy dance movies making worldwide stars of its high performers.
However not each factor of the worldwide phenomenon is made in Korea.
A number of the style’s dance strikes are being created in neighbouring Japan, by 20-year-old dancer and choreographer Reina Kaneko.
The expertise behind latest Ok-pop viral dance movies, Kaneko has choreographed for high teams GOT the Beat and NCT 127, the winner of the grand prize on the Seoul Music Awards in January.
Kaneko, identified on-line as ReiNa, started dance classes at 5 years previous, created her first authentic choreography for a contest just a few years later and by center college was educating hip hop dance workshops.
Her 176,000 followers on Instagram, the place she posts dance movies, now embrace world superstars like Rihanna.
Kaneko stated she was shocked when two years in the past she opened her e-mail to seek out job presents from leisure companies to choreograph for the Ok-pop teams.
Japanese dancer ReiNa dances as she teaches dance strikes to college students at her dance class in Tokyo, Japan February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
“They (Korean boy bands) have been so massive and it (choreographing for them) was effectively over the strain I may take,” Kaneko informed Reuters.
“However I attempted to place every part I’ve obtained (into the choreography). Additionally if I used to be going to choreograph for an artist, I wished to provide a choreography the place they might outshine others.”
SM Leisure confirmed they’d employed Kaneko to choreograph for NCT 127’s “Favourite(Vampire), NCT U’s “Universe(Let’s play ball) and “Make a want”, and GOT the Beat’s “Step again”. The company declined an interview request.
The coronavirus pandemic made the duty a bit of trickier by ruling out journey, forcing Kaneko to file a sequence of movies, together with one among her explaining the choreography whereas dancing very slowly and one other of her performing in formation with others.
“She’s working internationally and choreographing for large stars at a younger age,” stated 22-year-old dance pupil, Shoya Yamada, who was attending a hip hop class in a Tokyo studio. “I am so proud and blissful for her as a result of she’s my instructor.”
In addition to educating in Tokyo, Kaneko holds on-line courses for dancers overseas and choreographs stage performances for Japanese artists.
For dancing inspiration, she likes to buy groceries within the Tokyo style district of Harajuku, and says that whereas her resume hits new heights, she is going to all the time be the girl-next-door who genuinely simply loves to bop.
“My aim in the mean time is to point out the world how superb dance really is,” she stated.
Reporting By Akiko Okamoto; Enhancing by Jane Wardell
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