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Limbo dancer and fire dancer, professional dancer who can't dance.

While traveling around the world, he encountered juggling and taught himself how to perform with fire.

He formed the team "Goropika" in Nagano Prefecture, where he is based.

He is currently working on an entertainment show for the whole nation with the motto of entertaining people from 0 to 100 years old with a live show full of fire, Japanese drums and djembe.

 

He is a regular performer at GO OUT CAMP and is also a member of the oldest fire team in Japan, the Fire Bandid, and has performed at the Osu Daidogei Festival for over 10 years in a row.

In the fire show, he is good at using a staff (a stick with fire at both ends) and fire dart.

He has appeared in various big events with Kaguzuchi.

 

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Obtained the Haven Artist License issued by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Passed the exam in Limbo Dance, the first genre for Haven Artists.

With his experience in theater, he has developed a limbo show with a surreal and unique world view.

The creepiness of passing through knee-height is the best in the world.

In 2021, a total of 10 groups of performers battled it out in a tournament-style street performance battle at the Morigei (Morikoro Park Street Performance Festival), and Limbo alone won the competition.

 

 

He also sells chai (Indian-style milk tea) on the road under the name Chai Honey Moon.

After training in yoga in India, he became a teacher of yuru yoga.

Pursuing the aesthetics of the one-pointed handstand, rather than the three-pointed handstand, he is currently taking still pictures of himself under the name of "One-Ten-Tou-Ritsu.

He is also a part-time lecturer at a public university, where he teaches theater and fire performance to university students, and is involved in a wide range of activities, including productions using his skills in carpentry and sewing.

 

 

 

Awards

In 2006, Silver prize at the Fire Festival.

In 2017, Haven Artist license in Tokyo.

In 2021, Gold prize at the 5th Taiman Street Art Battle (Mori-gei). Current champion.