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Born in Okinawa, Japan, then 19-year-old Rino decided to leave her native country, in search of her dream -- to dance with Michael Jackson. In a daring move, Rino bought a ticket to Los Angeles and never regretted her decision till this very day.
On Jul 10, Rino attended The Big Groove 2011, an annual hip-hop dance festival, in Singapore with Beat Freaks, a notable all-female dance crew, of which Rino had been a member since 2004.
Two days before the event, Rino sat down with xinmsn and recalled her rise to fame as a K-Pop choreographer.
In this Internet era, it should come as no surprise that SM Entertainment -- the Korean entertainment company that houses some of K-Pop's biggest names such as Super Junior, Girls' Generation and SHINee -- found Rino on Youtube. "Thanks to Youtube," Rino laughed.
The company contacted her and the next thing she knew, she was churning out dances for the groups, and having Korean netizens coming up with "funny" names for her dances. For example, the leg-kicking routine in Girls' Generation 'Genie' was called the 'shuttle-kicking dance'.
Responding to that, the vivacious girl laughed heartily and said, "Oh, cool! So that's how it looks like, huh?"
Rino also revealed that her inspirations for a dance comes from the music itself and that she usually begins her creation of the dance after listening to the songs for "about a hundred times".
"The main thing is to show the song in the best way," Rino added.
The first dance Rino choreographed for SM Entertainment was Korean boy band SHINee's debut song, 'Replay'. She recalled the first time she met the five young lads.
"Oh my god, they're so cute," Rino raved, "That was like three years ago. They're like my 'babies'. They were so fresh and ready to learn. They were also respectful and hard workers." She also named the SM Entertainment idols whom she shared a stronger bond with. "They're people I talk about dance the most with, like SHINee's Taemin, Girls' Generation's Hyo-yeon and f(x)'s Amber," Rino said.
(L to R) Taemin from SHINee, Hyo-yeon from Girls' Generation and Amber from f(x)
If Taemin, Hyoyeon, Super Junior's Eunhyuk and TVXQ's Yunho -- generally believed to be the best dancers from each team -- battled out on the dance floor, who would win?
Rino first protested "it's not fair" and explained that she would have to see the four do the same choreography before she could rate them.
Out of all her choreographies for SM artistes, Rino listed SHINee's 'Love Like Oxygen', TVXQ's 'Maximum', which she co-created with Jaewon from SM Entertainment, and Girls' Generation's 'Genie' her favourites.
-only SHINee part is included-
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source :[MSN Singapore NEWS 110715]
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