What kids need most today...
I can't help but feel that by being forced to live with masks for years on end, something most important for children's mental development is being lost.

The loss of contact and relationships with people...
I think it is absolutely wrong to stop expressing yourself because you are afraid of other people's opinions, without knowing how to build trusting relationships that come from reading other people's facial expressions and communicating with them. In this sense, ballet can be said to be a very important form of communication. It is a time to express yourself with your body, feel the warmth of the person next to you, and cherish and nurture the moment when that finally shows in your facial expressions.
As the director, what I want to convey to everyone who comes to this studio is that I want them to not only develop ballet skills, but also to become people who can communicate warmly as human beings.
We hope to always exist as a place of self-expression where everyone can connect with love and properly show themselves to everyone.

Please feel free to come dance at Yoko Fukutani Ballet Studio anytime.

Representative: Yoko Fukutani