Burlesque dancer

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While studying at Musashino Art University, she debuted as a burlesque dancer in grand cabarets and nightclubs throughout Japan at the time. She started her career as a burlesque dancer since 1984.

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In 2000, she began to work abroad. She has created the current burlesque movement with the burlesque legends, Dixie Evans, Satans Angel, Velvet Hammer Burlesque, Lucha Vavoom Show, Dirty Martini, Kitten Deville,  Michelle L'Amour, Dita Von Tees and many others, who gave her the opportunity to create the American neo-burlesque movement.

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She won the title Miss Exotic World which is the first prize at the annual burlesque festival held at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, where where used to be in Helendale in 2003. 

She took the opportunity to move to the U.S. in 2004.

She has performed around the US and Canada. When she was 7month pregnant, she did a show and married on stage in Vegas in 2006. Later she separated from her ex-husband.
 

 She came back to Japan in 2008 and produced the first burlesque event ''TOKYO TEASE'' in Japan. She brought the Neo burlesque wave to Japan.

In 2011 she moved to Berlin, Germany and continues to perform in Europe. The reason of moving out to Berlin, it was the Fukushima nukes disaster happened.

In addition to performing in theaters in various parts of Germany as a member of ''Let's Burlesque,'' the most successful German cabaret music show in Europe at present.  She performs her show and the burlesque culture talk show in Berlin and many cities around Europe. 

 

Other Activities

Talk show with Mr. Kyoichi Tsuzuki who is an editor and a photographer. Her talks are about the good old days of cabarets and her experience based on the stories of the legends of burlesque dancers who were gone from this particular entertainment world.

For Design Stories, a web magazine hosted by Japanese author Hitonari Tsuji, She is currently writing a story about her life as a burlesque dancer in Europe.

She has collaborated with photographers and artists.

In Berlin, she has a pop-up event called ''Snack bar Life'' where she offers a place for European creators to meet and exchange ideas. The event is held on a regular basis. 

In 2020, she's writing her biography, which will be published soon in Japan.

 

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