DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER

Kenji was born in Japan and received his initial training in Tokyo at the Studio Ichibangai, The Performing Dance Center and the Japan Broadway Dance Center. He danced professionally throughout Asia for several years.

Kenji has continued his dance studies in Los Angeles and earned his B.F.A. from California Institute of The Arts. He has locally performed in Dance Kaleidoscope, Jazz Dance L. A., Dance Spectrum and Praxis Projects. He placed first at the Japan National Jazz Society Competition as well as first and second place at the Palm Desert Dance Under the Stars Competition.

He was recently awarded Pas De Deux at the Ninth Annual Dance Under The Stars Choreograph Festival in Palm Desert, California.

Kenji currently teaches ballet, jazz and modern dance at Millennium Dance Complex and University of Southern California. As a Dancer in Kin Dance Company at the Linhart Theatre in New York City, the Dance legend, Gus Solomons, Jr. described him as "a slight dancer with huge flexibility, whose every move looked studied for perfection of line". Lewis Segal refers to his choreography as “earthy and danced brilliantly.”