Most little girls studying Japanese dance want to be pretty princesses or beautiful maidens.
Not true for Hayashi Chie. I've always wanted to do a more active kind of dance. She was a talented child who got her natori, or stage name, at an unbelievable six years old, and her shihan natori, which allows one to teach, at seventeen. Through these years, she admired male dancers more than female, and always knew that she did not want to limit her art to one particular style. A turning point in her life ensued, in which she had to choose between staying on the traditional road she was on or branching out into something altogether new.