Originally from Osaka, Hiromi started working as a director of TV drama at NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and moved to New York, where he created a nonprofit production company that promoted cultural understandings between the US and Japan thr
...MoreOriginally from Osaka, Hiromi started working as a director of TV drama at NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and moved to New York, where he created a nonprofit production company that promoted cultural understandings between the US and Japan through stage arts and media. He produced and directed many performing arts programmes, and helped materialize about 30 TV documentary programmes (1989-2003). While in New York, he studied under Maxine Greene at Teachers College, Columbia University, and obtained his Master's degree in Dance and Dance Education. In 2003, he moved back to Japan and taught at an art University in Kyoto as Associate Professor for three years. He also directed and produced "Family Learning Centre (Kodomo Geijyutsu Daigaku)", a community-based arts education centre there. Currently he is pursuing his doctoral research in Dance Studies at National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Upon moving to Aotearoa/New Zealand, he started studying Kapa Haka intensively under Dr. Ngapo Wehi and Angela Smith at the University of Auckland. He is one of the doctoral scholarship recipients of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (National Institute of Research Excellence for Māori Development and Advancement) in 2011.
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