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​[charu : contemporary tap dancer ] ​

charu is a dancer and educator.
She started to learn classical ballet and a piano since her childhood.
She came across tap dance after she was awakened to creating a dance.
Since then she has been working out the genre to fuse in contemporary dance and the tap which she learned by herself.
That idea leads to her present activities.
Now she holds tap concerts with some musicians, and she both plan and appear on the stage in public performances or in live concerts.
In addition, she gives classes according to an individual person one by one or hold group workshops.
In 2008, she passed an audition carried out in Japan, which is called a Japanese tap scholarship student program and participated in Chicago Tap Festival.
In the same year,  she won the championship in a solo section at Kawasaki Tap festival carried out in Japan.
 

In 2016,2018,2019 she passed an audition carried out in Sweden, which is called a scholarship student program and work exchange program and participated in Stockholm Tap Festival. And she won the cutting contest in second prize twice at the Stockholm Tap Festival.

She takes half a year to work out the creation of her own and put it on the stage once a year and hold live performances with musical instruments regularly.
Although these are her main activities, she is also aiming at collaborating with various genres of dances, artists or projected images. She has still some more ideas which she would like to try and so she is testing them now.