Rino Nakasone

Choreography is the most invisible kind of authorship. Millions of people copy the moves; almost nobody can name who invented them. Rino Nakasone, born in Naha, Okinawa in 1979, sits behind an astonishing amount of what the world thinks of as K-pop and J-pop movement — Shinee, Girls' Generation, TVXQ, f(x), Red Velvet, SMAP. Before that she was competing with her crew Beat Freaks on the third season of America's Best Dance Crew, finishing second. I like that order of events. She did not arrive as a backstage technician; she arrived as someone who could out-dance the room, and then chose to hand that vocabulary to other performers. When a fan in Jakarta or São Paulo learns a routine in their bedroom, they are, without knowing it, learning her handwriting. That is a strange and enviable form of fame.

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Name (English)

Rino Nakasone

Name (Japanese)

仲宗根梨乃

Reading

なかそね りの

Born

June 11, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

164 cm

Occupation

dancer / choreographer / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

Works summary

Appearances

56 (2004–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2004: 3, 2005: 2, 2007: 1, 2009: 4, 2012: 1, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2015: 5, 2016: 1, 2018: 2, 2019: 1, 2020: 2, 2021: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 1, 2026: 1, year unknown: 27

Debut work

ユー・ガット・サーブド

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://rinonakasone.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rinokinawa/
• Xhttps://x.com/rinokinawa
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rino%20Nakasone
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BB%B2%E5%AE%97%E6%A0%B9%E6%A2%A8%E4%B9%83
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1922853

Tags

• Okinawa Prefecture
• dancer
• choreographer
• singer

Last updated

September 29, 2026

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