Rino Nakasone

Rino Nakasone (仲宗根 梨乃, Nakasone Rino, born June 11, 1979) is a Japanese dancer and choreographer. Nakasone and her dance crew, Beat Freaks, participated in the third season of America's Best Dance Crew, where they finished in second place. Nakasone has worked as a choreographer in South Korea and Japan, working with groups such as SHINee, Girls' Generation, TVXQ, f(x), and AKB48.

Rino Nakasone was born in Naha, capital of Okinawa Prefecture on June 11, 1979. She became interested in dance after watching music videos by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and mimicking their moves. At the age of nineteen, she went to Los Angeles to study dance. Just after her visa expired, she got a job as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson.

In 2004, she was chosen by Britney Spears as a backup dancer for Spears' Onyx Hotel Tour. After touring with Spears, she toured with Gwen Stefani as one of the Harajuku Girls, earning praise for her dance performance. She also danced for other musicians, such as Justin Bieber, and taught dance at performing arts centers. She joined an all-female dance group, Beat Freaks, which competed and was runner-up in America's Best Dance Crew in 2009.

Nakasone started her career as a choreographer in 2008 with South Korean boy band Shinee's debut song, "Replay". In 2009, she worked with S.M. Entertainment's dance team to create the choreography for Girls' Generation's "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)". She has choreographed for other S.M. Entertainment artists, including TVXQ and BoA, as well as Japanese groups AKB48 and SMAP.

In 2010, she appeared in the dance multimedia production "Siren Assassins" as Queen Jade. That same year, she joined The Pussycat Dolls after four of the original members left the group. She performed in two musicals in 2015, The Wiz and Asterisk, both in Japan.

Shinee

• Replay
• Sanso Gateun Neo (Love Like Oxygen)
• Juliette
• Lucifer (with Shim Jae-won)
• Hello
• Your Number (Japanese single)

Girls' Generation

• Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) (with Shim Jae-won)
• Oh!
• Hoot
• Mr. Taxi (with Shim Jae-won)
• The Boys
• Paparazzi
• I Got a Boy (with NappyTabs and Jillian Meyers)
• Beep Beep
• Love & Girls
• Boomerang
• Galaxy Supernova (with Kevin Maher and Shim Jae-won)
• Bump It
• Sign

Super Junior

• No Other (with Maryss from Paris)

BoA

• Dangerous
• Copy and Paste

Kangta

• Love Frequency (with Maryss From Paris)

f(x)

• Chu (with Hwang Sang-hoon)
• Nu ABO (with Maryss from Paris)
• Gangsta Boy
• Hot Summer

TVXQ

• Maximum
• Keep Your Head Down (with Shim Jae-won)
• Android (with Shim Jae-won)

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• Nguyen, Mai (November 19, 2012). "Dancing Across the World: an interview with choreographer Rino Nakasone". Asia Pacific Arts. University of Southern California. Retrieved February 28, 2015. 

Rino Nakasone married LeeJ Razalan, the manager of Beat Freaks and a fellow dancer, in 2007. On May 6, 2012, she announced at her official Facebook account that she and her husband had decided to go their separate ways after five years of marriage.

Huading Awards