Yuko ota biography for kids

Yuko was born in Nagoya Japan. Her Father was an engineer and inventor. Her mother is a housewife and she has a younger sister.

Yuko Ota was born and raised in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.

Her passion to do good brought her to her current position at the University of Maryland where she is an assistant professor and doing research on the evolution of the immune system. Her journey in dance started at age 8 with ballet classes. It was the pretty costumes that caught her eye. She simply wanted to wear pretty costumes.

By age 12, she was dancing on point. This gave her all the fundamental techniques needed for her to create the beautiful musical pictures and satisfy her desire for emotional expression. Her experimentation in other types of dancing, jazz and modern enhanced her well-rounded knowledge. Even with all of this experience, she always felt there was something missing.

Yuko Ota is an award-winning cartoonist from Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with Abrams Books, Oni Press, BOOM!, Dark Horse, Lerner Publishing, and more.

Nothing really felt natural to her. Petersburg, Florida. She met a Japanese woman there who took her to a dance party and pushed into the arms of a young good-looking dance instructor. Before she knew it she booked her first Ballroom Dance lesson and immediately fell in love with Ballroom Dancing. She started with American Style, but shortly after that, included International Style, which she later learned was competition dancing.