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My name is Azusa Nishimura. I am from Japan, where I began my ballet training at the age of three. After graduating from high school in my hometown, Hiroshima, I came to Europe to expand my repertoire from classical ballet to contemporary dance. I joined a training program for young dancers in Switzerland and, shortly after, began my professional career in contemporary dance in 2000. Since then, I have been based in Zurich and have been working throughout Switzerland and abroad, both as a dancer and a chorography assistant. 

I appreciate all the diverse experiences of working and creating with various companies and projects as a freelancer. Unbound by genre or category, my work is not limited to stage performances; I have performed many site-specific productions and enjoys collaborating with artists from other fields. I equally enjoys working with well-known choreographers and dancers, as well as newcomers an lesser-known artists, amatures, and young people.

Next to my work as an art creater, I began teaching ballet to beginners and contemporary dance to young actors in 2008, after a few years as a substitute teacher I started to be invited to teach for company classes and became employed by schools for regular weekly dance classes, raising young talents.

I continue to teach professional classes in various locations(Basel / Bern / Luzern / Zurich / Winterthur) for regional freelance dancers since 2010, as well as guest teaching for companies such as Bühnen Bern, and Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. I enjoy teaching and each single students matters to me.

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