Teacher Yuka Notsuka (Online)

YUKA NOTSUKA
Yuka Notsuka was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She began ballet training in her hometown at age four and later expanded her training to include jazz and tap. She has performed in Universal Studios Japan (Osaka, Japan) and Huis Ten Bosch (theme park in Nagasaki). Yuka moved to New York City to pursue a career as a dancer in 2015 when she was awarded a scholarship to train at The Ailey School. While on scholarship, she performed in the Ailey Spirit Gala Concert at Lincoln Center in works choreographed by the School Co-Director, Tracy Inman and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Artistic Director Robert Battle.

In New York she also trained and served as Teaching Assistant/Substitute Instructor at the Luigi Jazz Centre under Francis J. Roach. She taught and demonstrated the Luigi’s Jazz Technique for workshops at the Manhattan Movement Arts Center, NYU, and also taught fall semester at New Jersey City University 2018 and 2019

She performed in the Walt Disney Production of Saks Fifth Avenue Holiday Lighting Special Event in New York City, 2017 and 2019.

Since 2017 she has preformed with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company around the US. Some of her work with the company has also included teaching young students in New Jersey, Long Island University in NY and recently even online classes.