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Instructors

安藤万里子 Mariko Ando

美流-BIRYU-® Founder・Representative

Mariko Ando

Born in Tokyo.
She started classical ballet at the age of 6.
She learned under Kaori Hayashi at Ballet Studio HORIUCHI (formerly known as Unique Ballet Theater).

She participated ballet company from the age of 16.
From around this time, she came into contact with various genres of dance such as jazz and modern dance.

After graduating from high school, she went to the United States alone and entered the dance department of the State University of New York, Faculty of Arts.
While enrolled at the university she passed the audition for a professional dance company and made professional debut. At university, she received a special scholarship inorder to balance work and academics.

In addition to graduating from the university with excellent grades (Magna Cum Laude), she received a performance award from the college president on the recommendation of the faculty. She also gained stage experience at numerous dance companies in NY.

She participated in a dance project for one year in which she visited women’s prisons, juvenile and girl’s institutes in the United States. The program aimed to heal the minds and bodies of prisoners through dance therapy. She is also a Japanese who has had a valuable experience.

After receiving a scholarship and going to the Netherlands, she participated in a tour of the Netherlands. While traveling around Europe, she learned various dances and deepened her knowledge.

While living abroad for six years she tried many treatments and remedies for the improvement of a lumbar disc hernia that developed while she was in her second year of middle school. She also learned and practiced various fields of “body conditioning” represented by yoga and Pilates (which were not known in Japan at that time).

By this time, I had met three-digit therapists and therapists, and received treatments and sessions, but no fundamental improvement was achieved. In 2005, my back pain and numbness were limited due to an injury during rehearsal. In the meantime, he became unable to walk and temporarily retired from active duty and returned to Japan.
She is diagnosed by a doctor as “a lumbar disc hernia that has reached a level where she cannot live without a wheelchair.

She crawls through the house, spending days she can only eat and sleep, but her unique beauty-BIRYU-method that allows her to improve her fundamental body by meeting various professionals. development.

She will continue to rehabilitate based on this, and in a few years
・Complete recovery without surgery
・No chronic pain after her return to the stage
It brings a miraculous result.

Armed with the world’s first “ultra-practical” body approach “-BIRYU-” from Japan, which has a reputation for being accurate and easy to understand, and has been devised using his own body as an experimental table. The contents of Uroko’s class have been well received by professionals of all genres because of the overturning common sense of the body.

◆ Guest lecturer at Ballet School Dance Company

◆ Choreography and direction of opera, dance, ballet, musical, fashion show works and visual media

◆She serves as an interpreter and assistant for workshops at many famous overseas ballet companies and dance companies, including the “Forsythe Company” led by William Forsythe.

Not only does she have the title of this studio’s “president”, she also takes on the roles of
“-BIRYU- developer”,
“dancer”,
“leader”,
“choreographer” and “interpreter”. In all of these capacities she is expanding her field of activity both at home and abroad.

Lecturer career
Head Lecturer at “Hitachi no Mori Culture Center”
Lecturer at “Weltus Ginza Clinic”
Ballet Instructor at “Gold’s Gym”
Head Teacher at “Ballet Studio MBL” (Nihonbashi Classroom)
Main Lecturer at “Anciante / Harajuku / Ballet & Dance”
Representative of “Untechnique Beauty Stretch”

Presided over “Nishi Azabu Salon”
In addition to the aforementioned, she is currently the representative of -BIRYU-®.

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