Meet Marin Asano | Dancer/ performer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Marin Asano and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I am so excited and proud of myself to put myself out there internationally since I was young. I was really carious about everything. I liked to try the new things without being afraid. As I getting older, I realized that I gets harder sometime to explore new things like I was doing when I was young.
It wasn’t easy way to get to where I am today professionally. It hasn’t been a smooth road along the way. I haven’t been outside of Japan by myself until I was seventeen. First, I struggled with culture differences. The music that we listen to, TV that we watch, and the language that we speak are not the same. When I was in the college, It was hard for me to make friends. Even though I wanted to talk about what they are interested in, I was afraid and did not have a confidence enough to talk. One day, I was practicing dance at the studio by myself, my classmates started practicing with me, asking questions each other even though my English was not perfect. I am so thankful for my friendship that I made through dancing. Moreover, compared to Japan, people here has beautiful line and strong body for dancers. I had a hard time accepting the fact that I am not tall and about my giving body. Whenever I go to take a class at school, I started going back of the studio naturally because I was losing my confidence. Nevertheless, one of my dance teacher told me that I needed to challenge myself more and put myself out there. These words made me so strong and try every opportunities that I could get. From there, I was able to go take many company’s auditions and see what the real dance world is. Even now, I am straggling with managing my pressure to be a professional dancer. When I was a student, I was enjoying take classes and it was so fun for me everyday. However, at some point, it changed to the pressure that I needed to be a better dancer, or I needed to practice more because I was too focusing on making director satisfied. I am working on reminding myself of the feeling that I felt when I first danced, how much I enjoyed dancing. There is always going to be struggles in any of the professional field so I would like to try my best in my way to get through these struggles.It hasn’t been a smooth road along the way. I haven’t been outside of Japan by myself until I was seventeen. First, I struggled with culture differences. The music that we listen to, TV that we watch, and the language that we speak are not the same. When I was in the college, It was hard for me to make friends. Even though I wanted to talk about what they are interested in, I was afraid and did not have a confidence enough to talk. One day, I was practicing dance at the studio by myself, my classmates started practicing with me, asking questions each other even though my English was not perfect. I am so thankful for my friendship that I made through dancing. Furthermore, compared to Japan, people here has beautiful line and strong body for dancers. I had a hard time accepting the fact that I am not tall and about my giving body. Whenever I go to take a class at school, I started going back of the studio naturally because I was losing my confidence. Nevertheless, one of my dance teacher told me that I needed to challenge myself more and put myself out there. These words made me so strong and try every opportunities that I could get. From there, I was able to go take many company’s auditions and see what the real dance world is. Even now, I am straggling with managing my pressure to be a professional dancer. When I was a student, I was enjoying take classes and it was so fun for me everyday. However, at some point, it changed to the pressure that I needed to be a better dancer, or I needed to practice more because I was too focusing on making director satisfied. I am working on reminding myself of the feeling that I felt when I first danced, how much I enjoyed dancing. There is always going to be struggles in any of the professional field so I would like to try my best in my way to get through these struggles.

I always love to share my experience and be open-minded to everybody and everything. I would want the world to know about me as one of individual who really like entertainment through movement and music.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I would love to take my best friend to go hike to Hollywood. I was kind of kid who watched so many Hollywood movies and me and my best friend were dreaming to come to see Hollywood when I was young. And after that, I would like to take my best friend to the beach. Since I live in Southern California with best weather, we need to see sunset at the beach. I remembered first time going to the beach in California. I felt so small compare to this world and the ocean in front of me. I felt free and the greatness of nature. I really want my best friend to feel that amazing feeling. I would also bring my best friend to see entertainment show in Hollywood. It will be a great experience to see the show in here because its really different how they express things and direct the show. I think these are the things that I want to do with my best friend if they visit me in the U.S. from Japan.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Nannette Brodie Dancer Theatre: company director—Nannette Brodie Southern California Dance Academy—- academy director—Paula Vreulink

Website: https://marinkarinmikinori.wixsite.com/website-2

Instagram: Marinkarin27

Image Credits
Captures Con Chachi Mike Torino