Kimiho Hulbert danced before she could talk. Crawling backstage between dressing rooms of her Japanese mother and British father, both professional dancers in Belgium where she was born, Hulbert even disdained her first official ballet class at 2 years old as "too babyish."
"I only knew the real world of dance, so to me the children's class was not real ballet, and I refused to join," she recalls. Hulbert's entry into the competitive world of professional ballet was never child's play, and after 20 years in the system, the young choreographer is finally taking her destined place in dance.
Hulbert came to live in Japan at the age of 5. Her mother, Mitsuyo Kishibe, continued to dance professionally before opening a ballet school in the Tokyo area. Since Hulbert had already started international school in Belgium, she enrolled in Seisen International School in Yoga, Setagaya Ward.