{"id":76711,"date":"2010-01-01T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com?post_type=feature&#038;p=8572"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T03:34:39","slug":"soraya-jayne-matsuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/soraya-jayne-matsuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Soraya Jayne Matsuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"fn133 gekkan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7158\/6502896073_ca072dd147_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soraya Jayne studied in a Russian ballet school between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. She then performed with the Israel Ballet for five years. Initially, she came to Fukuoka to visit a fellow dancer but she soon found herself in great demand due to her popularity as a foreign instructor. In 1996 she opened her own school and six years ago she moved into her current spacious and beautiful studio near Ohori Park. &#8220;Ballet requires discipline, but it should also be enjoyable,&#8221; she says commenting on how her school has a more relaxed approach towards instructing children. It&#8217;s also the only ballet school to use live piano accompaniment in all the classes. With over 150 students, Soraya&#8217;s self-made success as a foreigner is a truly inspiring story. For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sj-ballet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sj-ballet.com<\/a> or Tel: 092-725-2274<\/p>\n<p>Suffolk, U.K.<br \/>\n19 years<br \/>\nBallet School Principal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally published in Fukuoka Now magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn133\" target=\"_blank\">fn133, Jan. 2010<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soraya Jayne studied in a Russian ballet school between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. She then performed with the Israel Ballet for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"8572","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","location-fukuoka-city","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/fn133-gekkan-gaijin.jpg?fit=960%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98424,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76711\/revisions\/98424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}