Odori

Alana Keiko Fleming

Alana Keiko Fleming is a yonsei illustrator, graphic designer, and animator who has worked on blockbuster movies such as Ghostbusters (2017), Alpha, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. She is currently working on a board game called DreamWeavers. Her art style is a reflection of her culture, a mix of anime and western […]

Teresa Kobayashi

Teresa Kobayashi is a master koto player, the daughter of renowned koto sensei Miyoko Kobayashi. She also plays the shamisen and shakuhachi and danced odori for 27 years. As a child, she was primarily interested in dance, and began learning the Hanayagi style of nihonbuyo (odori dance) at the age of six. However, she found […]

Chiyoko Izumi

Chiyoko Izumi is an odori dance instructor in Hamilton, Ontario, who has been teaching odori for over 70 years. She began to study odori at age 10 in Vancouver, two years before she was sent to Japan to care for her sick grandmother. Izumi returned to Canada after her grandmother’s death, and married her husband […]