On March 20, 1926, a 14-year-old Korean girl was in Seoul, watching a performance of the internationally renowned dancer Baku Ishii and his troupe.
Her name was Choi Seung-Hee, and she was so inspired by this Japanese pioneer of avant-garde dance that two days later she was aboard a Seoul-Pusan train, heading to Tokyo, where she would study under this master of modern dance.
Little did she know, she was on her way to becoming a star, whose career would last from the 1930s to 1945 and take her to the top theaters in Europe and the Americas.
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