is a Japanese

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. Nakasone and her dance crew, Beat Freaks, participated in the third season of ''

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'', where they finished in second place. Nakasone has worked as a choreographer in South Korea and Japan, working with groups such as

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Early life and career

Rino Nakasone was born in

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, capital of

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on June 11, 1979. She became interested in dance after watching music videos by

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and mimicking their moves. At the age of nineteen, she went to

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to study dance. Just after her visa expired, she got a job as a backup dancer for

. In 2004, she was chosen by

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as a backup dancer for Spears' Onyx Hotel Tour. After touring with Spears, she toured with

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as "Music", one of the Harajuku Girls, earning praise for her dance performance. She also danced for other musicians, such as

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, and taught dance at performing arts centers. She joined an all-female dance group, Beat Freaks, which competed and was runner-up in ''

'' in 2009. Nakasone started her career as a choreographer in 2008 with South Korean boy band

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's dance team to create the choreography for

's "

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". She has choreographed for other SM Entertainment artists, including

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, as well as Japanese groups

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and

. She has directed concerts for BoA, Girls' Generation, Shinee,

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. In 2010, she appeared in the dance multimedia production "Siren Assassins" as Queen Jade. That same year, she joined

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after four of the original members left the group. She performed in two musicals in 2015, ''

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'' and ''Asterisk'', both in Japan.

List of choreographies

Shinee

*"Replay" *"

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" *"Juliette" *"Lucifer" (with Shim Jae-won) *"Hello" *" Your Number" *"Kimi no Sei De" *"Get the Treasure" (with 50)

Girls' Generation

*"Genie" (with Shim Jae-won) *" Oh!" *" Hoot" *" Mr. Taxi" (with Shim Jae-won) *" The Boys" *"

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" *" I Got a Boy" (with NappyTabs and Jillian Meyers) *"Beep Beep" *" Love & Girls" *"Boomerang" *" Galaxy Supernova" (with Kevin Maher and Shim Jae-won) *"Bump It" *"Sign" *" All Night" (with Fuko and Shuhei Meguri)

Super Junior

*"No Other" (with Maryss from Paris)

BoA

*"Dangerous" *"Copy & Paste" *" Shout it Out"

Kangta

*"Love Frequency" (with Maryss From Paris)

f(x)

*"Chu" (with Hwang Sang-hoon) *"Nu ABO" (with Maryss from Paris) *"Gangsta Boy" *" Hot Summer"

TVXQ

*"Maximum" *"

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" (with Shim Jae-won) *" Android" (with Shim Jae-won)

Red Velvet

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" (with Ryu So-hee) *" #Cookie Jar" (with Fuko Takenaka)

NCT 127

*"Chain" (with Jumi Lite)

AKB48

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" *" Heart Ereki" *"

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Personal life

Rino Nakasone married LeeJ Razalan, the manager of Beat Freaks and a fellow dancer, in 2007. On May 6, 2012, Rino announced that she and LeeJ had decided to go separate ways and would take their five years of marriage as a "special learning experience" while continuing to remain friends.

Awards

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, - , 2015 , Rino Nakasone-Razalan , Global Best Dancer-Actor ,

Bibliography

* ART BOOK「Rinosophy」2023

References

External links

Rino Nakasone Official Website

Beat Freaks Website
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