Geta Dance Art

It was created and developed by Japanese performance artist Miyuki Matsunaga, with music by Cirque Du Soleil adapter and musician Pierre Dubé.

Matsunaga first started performing Geta Dance at the 2nd Street Jazz Club in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she gained a following.

In 2008 Matsunaga performed Geta Dance alongside lead actress Mary Takeyama in the Baseline Productions motion picture Subprime Children.

Impressed by her performances, he began to provide more of his works, and his compositions came to comprise the bulk of the music for Geta Dance shows.

Some have also criticized the look and aesthetics of Geta Dance Art, likening its female practitioners to appearing like prostitutes or onna tsubofuri shi, the women who worked for yakuza gambling dens in Edo period Japan.