Kana Miyamoto began her dance training at age two in Japan. She studied at the Mayumi Minokami Ballet Studio and performed in their production of Swan Lake, Coppέlia, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, La Sylphide, Raymonda and more. She studied jazz dance with Kanako Fukuoka and Rei Aoo in Japan. Though she loved ballet, she maintained a stronger interest in performing as a jazz contemporary dancer. She moved to America in 1997 to continue her dance training and career. After her relocation to the U.S.A, she performed throughout the United States with KIN Dance Company, AnNamx Dance Production, Vox Lumiere, and most recently, Ken Dance Company (KDC) where she is both a dancer and assistant director with founder and artistic director, Kenji Yamaguchi. As a dancer in Kenji’s works, she was described by the Los Angeles Times as “elegantly tethered to an earthbound sorrow.” Her solo work has also been called “gripping and soul- searching.” Kana developed her own special project, Kana’s Japan Relief Fund, “Dance From The Soul,” which was set up for Sendai-City in Japan to replant trees and flowers in the city where they had been uprooted and destroyed by earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011. Since then she has been visiting Sendai-City each year to help keep communications open with the people who live there, and hopefully aid in the re-creation and re-development within the city. Kana also works as a stage director/ choreographer/dancer for J’s Hair Studio & Academy Inc. for their ISSE, IBS shows in U.S and Japan tour of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Mexico and Paris in 2017. She has been taught ballet and Contemporary jazz workshop at Avex Artist Academy in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and other local studios in Japan, Big Dance Center in New Delhi, India. She teaches ballet regularly at Millennium Dance Complex, Hama Dance Center in Los Angeles since 2000.