Kei takei biography

Kei Takei (pronounced "Kay Takay") began her career when she was 12 years old in Tokyo, a middle-school student at the fashionable Oyu Gakuen Girl's School.

She assembled a handful of her classmates and paraded them around the gym floor in what she called "The March of the Good Friends."

Kei's father had taught his daughter (the second of three children) drawing. Her mother, more practically instructed her in the secrets of growing garden vegetables.

Kei Takei is a dancer-choreographer and the creator of Moving Earth dance company.

Kei Takei is a dancer-choreographer and the creator of Moving Earth dance company.

Japanese choreographer and dancer.

Born in Tokyo, Takei studied a variety of dance styles including folk dances, ballet, and Japanese classical dance.

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Takei, who came to New York in , returned to Tokyo in to raise her son.

Conventionally enough, young Kei enrolled in the Sakaki Bara Dance School where she was drilled in folk dances, ballet, and the subtleties of buyo or Japanese classical dance. Japan's dance world after the tragedies of the war had begun a merciless search of self-expression and, eventually, self-discovery.

Led by pioneers and now immortal names Tatsumi Hijakata and Kenji Hinoki, the artistic equivalents of Mary Wigman and Martha Graham, a new kind of experimental dance emerged from Japan, at once indebted to and scornf