Our dancers

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Saori Maeda is 23 years old and from Japan. She began her ballet training at Sameshima Ballet School since she was five years old. Under the tutelage from Ms. Yoko, Saori performed Swanhilda from Coppelia, Paquita's Etoile, and other leading roles. She moved to the U.S. to start studying dance academically at Palomar College in California in 2018. As she studies dance and challenges to different forms of dances at college, she truly found her joy in dancing. She has experience in hip hop, jazz, tap, contemporary, and modern, and puts every effort to better at any forms of dances. But ballet was alway her favorite and always appreciated every opportunity of being able to dance ballet. She also attended a summer intensive at Burklyn Ballet Theater and performed Snow White and seven dwarfs at the Fringe festival in Scotland in 2019. She has got to perform to little children and their parents and got to have valuable time.      She has been trained at New West Ballet school by Ms. Coral Bruni and Ms. Christina Wurz since 2019, which is where she gets her ballet training. Now she majors in dance at California State University Long Beach from 2020 and will be graduating in May 2022. She is so passionate about performing professionally in the near future.