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Bio: Midori Asakura Dancer and Teacher of Twenties Charleston, Lindy Hop, Rhythm Tap, Big Apple and Blues Midori Asakura dances, teaches and performs vernacular jazz dance, including Lindy Hop, Rhythm Tap, Charleston, Big Apple, Blues and Peabody. A native of Tokyo, Japan, she began her dance career in 1987 as a tap dancer, and has studied with the late Chuck Green (her inspiration), Barbara Duffy, Herve Le Goff and Bettye Morrow, among others. She began exploring Lindy Hop and other partner and solo jazz dances in 1995, studying with Frankie Manning and Steven Mitchell, among others. Midori has appeared on television, on stage and in film, dancing as a soloist, with her partner and husband, Chad Fasca; and with the performance troupe of New York Swing Dance Society, The Big Apple Lindy Hoppers. In print, she has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Life Magazine, the New York Times, The Columbia, S.C. State, and, most recently, on the cover of Lincoln Center's 2003 Midsummer Night Swing program and posters. She and her husband are known for developing their own style called LindyHoofin', which blends Lindy Hop partnering and Rhythm Tap syncopation. Midori teaches at Sandra Cameron Dance Center in New York, and has taught classes at the 92nd Street Y as well as workshops in Tokyo and Chicago. She also teaches in local grade and high schools, including engagements at La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts, Baruch College High School and P.S. 93, among others. She and her husband also host bimonthly Saturday night dances at the 92nd Street Y's Buttenweiser Hall. For more information about her, including a collection of video clips of her dancing, contact Chad Fasca at chad@fasca.net.
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