Fumi kaneko biography for kids

Add content to this section using the sidebar. Her older sister also took ballet classes as a hobby but did not pursue it as a career.

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She attended ordinary school during the day before taking ballet classes in the evening. There were around students at the Ballet School in Osaka. Asked whether ballet was popular in Japan she agreed it had now become more popular but that when she was at school she was the only one doing ballet. As a sign of her growing commitment, at around the age of 12 she began to enter competitions in Japan, though juggling her daytime school work and dancing involved some very long evening classes running from 5pm to 11pm — with dinner after midnight — and the prospect of a normal school start at 8.

The practice for competitions was rigorous, with a very strict and demanding teacher, and she would practice a solo every day for three months in order to prepare. Another important factor driving her to want to enter competitions was the lack of opportunities to perform, which were as little as only one performance a year. Nevertheless, she was able to choose the ballets from which to showcase her solos, including Don Quixote and Sylvia.

Her first international competition was in Varna, Bulgaria, which while very famous she said was also one of the hardest of her life. Moscow proved a very different experience as it was the first time she had danced on a raked stage.

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She nevertheless won a silver medal there in With several international medals under her belt, after Varna she was invited by The Hungarian National Ballet to dance Clara in Nutcracker. It was therefore a significant turning point that after the competition in Jackson she was asked to send a video to the Royal Ballet, it being a matter of regret that she cannot now remember who it was who made the request.

The result was that four months later she came to London for classes, as David pointed out, by herself and not knowing if there was going to be a job at the end of it. Happily, after only a couple of days, Monica Mason offered her a job.