Our Lessons and Our Practice

Our lesson and performance consists of three branches and one principle.

• Classic Dance
  So called Kabuki dance. Nagauta, Kiyomoto, Yamatoraku...We explore traditional Japanese movements and its inner beauty.
  
• Folk Dance
  Soran Dance, Kawachi Dance, Sado-Okesa etc. We study folk dances.
  
• Creativity
  Nishizaki the First once said, “ It’s important to create a dance which is based on a current ideology and a society.” We are
  eager to work with western music and dance in order to create a new dance style.
  
• “Onko Chishin”
  Our dance is based on a style that has been in a history for a long time and also evolves according to our current needs. This is Nishizaki Dance Group’s motto.

Born in Kanda, Tokyo, she started to learn traditional Japanese dance when she was 6.

Being fascinated by Nishizaki the First, she entered Nishizaki Dance Group. She becames Nishizaki the Second after the First passed away.

She organized the Nishizaki Midori Dance Group with the will of Nishizaki the First. Additionally she opened Nishizaki Midori Dance School to popularize the dance art.

She has worked on a TV program, Kinkan Folk Songs Battle, for 35 years from 1961.

In 1989, she won the Artistic Award for her Yaobikuni performance at Zou-jyou Temple at Shiba, Tokyo.

In 1993, her group performed Yaobikuni in France and Spain as part of Cultural Bureau Projects and got great reviews from the European Media.

In 1995, in Arisunokawamiya Park, she performed Kayame Tensho and won Dance Critics Award.

In 2002, she won Art Festival Award for Amidanyorai.