Naoko Moriyama Robbins
Website
http://www.gyrotoniconbroadway.com/
About
In 1988, Ms. Robbins came to New York to further her dance career. She studied many different styles of dance and performed with several different choreographers.
She has also become a very successful director of education for Japanese children both at Educational Alliance West and Friends Academy
in NYC. Naoko has taught at nursery schools, and several dance schools including the 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Center in NYC.
Since 1990, she has been an integral part of the Peridance faculty, teaching Ballet and Gyrokinesis, serving as foreign student advisor for 11 years as she continued teaching dance education for young children She has been mentor, and often friend to literally hundreds of parents, children and foreign dancers from all over the world.
Naoko discovered Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis in early 1997, starting the exercise for herself to maintain a heathly life.
Gyrotonic training has inspired and motivated her discipline of both body and mind, expanding her entire outlook on education and life. Naoko became a master trainer for Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis level 1 and level 2, and in specialized equipment.
Since 2009, Naoko has started to expand from teaching in the US to also teaching
in her home country, educating new Gyrotonic teachers and making a bridge among the US, Japan, China, and other Asian countries.
In the winter of 2011, she opened her own studio, in the cutting edge location in mid Manhattan, expanding her teaching teacher training as well as regular clients.