Who wants a Rino Nakasone special stage with SHINee?! Or Beat Freaks & SNSD?! Or GEMINIZ & DBSK?!?

[choiaiane.livejournal.com]

Don't tell us you don't know who she is.

RINO NAKASONE is an internationally-famous choreographer and dancer (she's been in music videos and concerts with Britney Spears and Justin Bieber), but she is more known in the KPop world as the dancing machine behind most of SM Entertainment's choreographies. And when we say MOST, we really mean A LOT! Some of her works include:

• SHINee: Noona Neomu Yeppeo (Replay), Love Like Oxygen, Juliette, Hello; Lucifer
• Girls' Generation: Tell Me Your Wish (Genie), Oh!, Hoot
• Super Junior: No Other (with Maryss from Paris)
• BoA: Dangerous, Copy and Paste
• Kangta: Love Frequency
• f(x): Chu (song), Nu ABO
• TVXQ: Maximum, Keep Your Head Down

Whew! That's a very long list! Now, she recently paid a visit to her homeland, Japan, as a special guest performer for the DREAM ON! KPop Dance Festa in Shibuya, as well as to hold several dance workshops in Tokyo and visit her family in Okinawa.

Fangirl Diaries was lucky enough to score an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with this very busy, very sweet, very talented dancer. We asked her:

What would be your craziest dream KPop project -- like, maybe you would want to collaborate and perform with ANY KPop artist on a non-Kpop song, or even like a huge mash-up collab with the Beat Freakz -- what would it be and why? Anything under the KPop sun -- the sky's the limit!!!

And here's what she said:

My dream is to perform with SHINee! It would be great if we could do it with the Beat Freaks; it could be their songs or just [a] straight-up dance performance! Who knows, it could be me singing with SHINee too~!

Also I want do project with Girls' Generation and Beat Freaks; since we're both 9-member, all-women groups it would be funny to switch roles, and maybe do some skits.

With The GEMINIZ, the duo I perform in with Maryss from Paris, I would like to do a project with DBSK's [Yunho and Changmin].

Oh, and with BoA, I would love to just dance our asses off with the Beat Freaks and perform for a concert or MV - to show girl power, and women who can dance better than men!

Of course the fans love all your work, but if you had to pick just one from all your KPop projects, which one would be your favorite choreography to date and why?

산소 같은 너 (Love Like Oxygen) by SHINee. When I first heard the song, I loved it so much because it had so much of a Michael Jackson flavor. So I couldn’t help but make a choreography that had so much MJ influence, which I love.

 

The Beat Freakz have always been very vocal about encouraging girls to dance – how does it feel to see so many girls learning and performing you choreographies, like at “DREAM ON!”? Why do you think they appeal so much to girls,  some who might not have been interested in dancing beforehand?

It’s an honor because that’s how I practice dance, watching all the idols and their choreography. I think K-Pop has a lot of elements of how entertainment used to be back in the day, with MJ, Janet Jackson, TLC and MC Hammer. They made us wanna do what they did because it’s so attractive. My opinion of why Girls’ Generation is so popular in Japan is not only [because] there were no other artists like them, but also [because] they are role models of what the Japanese girls wanna be. Also, Girls’ Generation entertains with great music and catchy choreography.

 

You’re holding a series of workshops here in Tokyo during your visit, and one of the dances you’ll be teaching is for DBSK’s 왜 (Keep Your Head Down) – easily one of the most anticipated comebacks of the year. How would you describe your experience working on this particular choreography?

The choreography for 왜 was actually a collaboration with three other Korean choreographers (BeatBurger) and I enjoyed working with them. I think when collaborating there are a lot of unknown possibilities as to how the work will come out, and I love that.

 
For more Rino photos + answers to more questions (about teaching dances, learning from videos, and her future KPop projects), see the full interview here!

Rino was even super sweet enough give a video shoutout to all her fans and FangirlDiaries.com! Just goes to prove how genuinely nice and grounded this talented girl remains to be despite her success and fame.

Tell me -- who else is TOTALLY EXCITED to see a collab stage with The Beat Freakz + SHINEE?!?!

WE ARE! JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND PLEADING WITH SM KIND OF EXCITED! Taemin + Rino duo stage, please!

Don't forget to read the rest of the interview (where Rino dishes about working with the choreography for 'Keep Your Head Down', why SNSD is popular in Japan, and her favorite KPop choreography to date!). Lots of juicy stuff!

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Comments

[qrizta.livejournal.com]

9?? Since when did Beat Freaks become 9? I haven't checked their official website for so long that I missed it. A new addition after Shorty?

BUT YES PLEASE MAKE ALL THOSE COLLABS HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEAT FREAKS WITH SM TOWN IS MY DREAMS COME TRUE!!!!


"Oh, and with BoA, I would love to just dance our asses off with the Beat Freaks and perform for a concert or MV - to show girl power, and women who can dance better than men!"

AMAZING!!! That would make my jaw drops.

[gundae.livejournal.com]

REALLY let her perform with SHINee.

[love-etcetera.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see her perform with Shinee *__*

[nandexdame.livejournal.com]

Her Shinee bias is obvious and cute.

[freed-misery.livejournal.com]

I freaking love Rino <3

A collab with Shinee would be so fucking awesome.

[cagallisakura.livejournal.com]

SNSD AND BEAT FREAKS TOGETHER WOULD BE FREAKING AWESOME. I hope they can do something like the illusion challenge with that floating ball.

[qrizta.livejournal.com]

"Also I want do project with Girls' Generation and Beat Freaks; since we're both 9-member, all-women groups it would be funny to switch roles, and maybe do some skits."

lol Not only they're all women group but they're all oddballs and funny ladies. I can imagine Lindsey being all crazy and Rino laughs her head off. Sooyoung can be her partner in crime. OMG the fun and lulzy moments that can happen with these 2 groups doing a skit. LMAO

"With The GEMINIZ, the duo I perform in with Maryss from Paris, I would like to do a project with DBSK's [Yunho and Changmin]."

SEXY!


I'm such a BF stan n SM town. :P

[petitpoisbleu.livejournal.com]

Rino Nakasone is my hero.

[iusta-rum.livejournal.com]

OUR hero (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v649/yovisual/emoticons/?action=view&current=icon59.gif)

[kiku-cha8-8.livejournal.com]

Good choice--her Love Like Oxygen choreo is amazinggg

She should be included in Sm Town or something. Her soft spot for Shinee is adorable though.

[jaegiya.livejournal.com]

TVXQ: Maximum, Keep Your Head Down
no wonder i couldn't choose which one to learn first. both are awesome and apparently came from the same person.

[grapewhine.livejournal.com]

What I found weird was that, in this one radio show, Minho said Jae Won choreographed Lucifer, even saying Jae Won didn't sleep for days because he was so occupied with it. He didn't mention Rino at all.

[bayoublackjack.livejournal.com]

From my understanding from what has been said in the past, they worked together on Lucifer, but Jae Won was the lead choreographer.

[xiola-azuthra.livejournal.com]

i was wondering about this too~! thanks for clarifying :D

[childishgrin.livejournal.com]

She helped with the choreography and apparently did a short part of it somewhere towards the end but it's mainly Jaewon's work.

[inudela.livejournal.com]

omg RinoxSHINee SM MAKE IT HAPPEN

[velveteenkitten.livejournal.com]

Make it happen SM!!! Any and all of the collabs, please!

[cher-ex3.livejournal.com]

All of this epicness needs to happen.

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

OMG RINO AND SHINEE OMG YES I THINK I'M COMING!!!! *_____________________*
PLS SM MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!
AND SOME FIERCE KEY-DANCE WHILE YOU'RE AT IT.

omg she's such a shinee fangirl >:3 i think she's my soulsister or something...agewise anyways.

[livesmiling.livejournal.com]

RINOOOO <3

[memopanda.livejournal.com]

RINO!!! ♥ I love all the choreo she's worked on and I love watching her dance, she's freaking epic. Want to see mooore <3

[vizallati.livejournal.com]

Rinoooo♥

She should just perform in SM Town. I'd want to see Replay/Chu/NU ABO/Maximum/Wae and also SNSD dancing to Beat Freakz choreo.

[childishgrin.livejournal.com]

Lol I feel bad that JaeWon doesn't get more credit for Lucifer, considering he's the main choreographer of it.

But Rino! ♥

[jo-hyuksu.livejournal.com]

lucifer and genie were great, but No Other.. seriously wish they went with another choreographer.

do want tho SHINee and Rino stage :D

OT: idk if its just me but these days.. i feel like when people mention SM town artists and SM entertainment the names TVXQ SNSD and SHINee always come up together. well i can understand if f(x) is omitted but hello, super junior? hmm. /butthurt. but at least for this article, i can understand, since SJ really wasnt mentioned at all. but AKP.. argh. h8h8h8.

[wushuhimexx.livejournal.com]

SHINEE AND RINO SHINEE AND RINO SO EXCITE :D

[episkia.livejournal.com]

SHINEE RINO OMG R U SRS OIFJSOIJDFSOIDJFOSIDJFOSIJDFOSJDFOSIDJFSODF



sob you mean taemin .. and key ... with rino ...?

(and then the rest of them trying to look cool in the background plz)

+_+

[tsunagatte.livejournal.com]

SHINEE COLAB YES PLEASEEEEE.

[hydeified.livejournal.com]

RINO AND SHINEE PLEASE!

I love how she adores them so much<3

[sincronia.livejournal.com]

I love Rino. She's the shit. My friend took a dance workshop with her, and he was blown away. It was an honor just to be in her (and Jaewon's) presence at SM Town.

[chinchuu.livejournal.com]

lol Rino regards SHINee like her babies. I'd totally love to see SHINee x Rino together!!

"Oh, and with BoA, I would love to just dance our asses off with the Beat Freaks and perform for a concert or MV - to show girl power, and women who can dance better than men!"
That would be AMAZING!!!! *_____*

I had no idea she helped with the choreo for "Keep your head down"! :D

[say-o-kay.livejournal.com]

OMG, make the SHINee collab happen PLEASE.

[miki-831.livejournal.com]

she seems so cute *o*
i would love to learn how to dance from her

[eeyorelm09.livejournal.com]

this seriously needs to happen!!!

i remember watching one of their beat freakz performances and she used a move from love like oxygen and i was like jumping up and down on my couch like yay!!!!!