Background
Rino Nakasone was born in Okinawa on June 11, 1979.
仲宗根 梨乃
Rino Nakasone was born in Okinawa on June 11, 1979.
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 of Korea and Japan, working with groups such as SHINee, Girls" Generation, TVXQ, and AKB48. 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 South.M. Entertainment"s dance team to create the choreography for Girls" Generation"s "Tell Maine Your Wish (Genie)". She has created choreography for other South.M. Entertainment artists, including TVXQ and BoA, and 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 Maine 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
Bump lieutenant
Sign
Super Junior
Number 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).