Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any dancer agencies that are hiring girls to dance in Tokyo? I have yet to find any... :(
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any dancer agencies that are hiring girls to dance in Tokyo? I have yet to find any... :(
The japanese government stopped issuing work visas for foreign dancers a few years ago.Some girls still work there illegally.
If anyone knows different please let me know.I would love to work in japan too.
...is highly illegal if you are American. I mean, there are always ways around this... but it would be a risk, and I doubt the club would cover for you if, say, they were raided and you were found to be working illegally. I have a friend who visited Japan for a few weeks about...oh, a yearish ago, and (allegedly) she was offered a buy-me-drinky job at a hostess bar, so theoretically you *could* probably just physically go to bars and *possibly* get hired, but even so you would be working there illegally.
I would also love to work there=( I'd never want to leave and I'd probably turn into a major whore because I am seriously down with the Japanse, lol.
So if you were gonna work there, don't you have to have some degree of communication with the locals?
It looks super cool to work there too, but how do you communicate?
Just English? Are most of these clubs situated at tourist areas or....?
Husband and I are going out to Shinjuku and Roppongi Saturday night. I'll report back then.:) I'm not going to work, but as a customer.
I'm going to Japan in August. I want to dance there so badly!!! Maybe auditioning is legal there, though...
Lexxus, when you get here if you want to hang out or whatever, pm me. :)
すみません、えっと、あなたたちは日本語はないせづか?
nihongo ga sukoshi hanasemasu.
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すごい。
try 7th heaven or private eyes...this is best clubs in rapongi(?!).I am with my friend now that was working there before.Many years ago though!!!
I know you've probably mentioned this is a million other threads but have you danced/tried to dance whilst living in Japan? Also out of interest, if you're not dancing are you working another job?
I visited Japan about 7 years ago now and always wanted to go back once I got my degrees and work for a while as I heard back then it was easy to get a job once you had a degree (usually a teaching job). I only speak a little Japanese too these days :(
I'm not dancing here. Mostly because of the uber-long commute and terrible hours. The trains stop running before the clubs close. Clubs open from 8-3, and trains stop running around midnight and don't start up again til about 5am. :( And there's no way I'm driving that far. So yeah, no dancing for me atm. Also, not related to me not dancing but on the strip clubs here in general, a lot of the SC here are set up a bit different from your average state-side club. And the dancing style is a bit different as well. Kind of cool to see differences like that. :)
Right now I am working as an English instructor. Since I work only a few hours a week, I am making in one month what I used to make in 1 or 2 shifts at the clubs. Laughable. Thankfully, hubby makes enough that I don't technically have to work: I just want to. I don't want to totally depend on his paycheck, you know? I hate feeling like I have to ask for money like a kid, like I'm getting an allowance. ugh.
It is pretty easy to find teaching English jobs here, and not overly difficult to get a Visa for it if you go through a company, or so I'm told. I didn't have to go through that since we are here on a military visa. very different from the average person's process. The biggest companies here I've noticed are Aeon, Berlitz, and GABA. I work with GABA since their exptrememly flexible scheduling system suited me. I work as an independent contractor with them. Aeon and Berlitz pay way better, but are less flexible with scheduling.
If you want more info on teaching English, let me know. :)
^^
How did you get into it -what is the training & education involved? Sounds interesting
How is the dancing style different? Whats the set up difference?
Thanks papillonluvr!! That was a great help :)
This is my experience on the biggest differences: in Japan you usually stay all night or at least for a few hours with the same guy entertaining him, you need to sit and drink with him and you get paid for each drink/bottle he buys for you, in the club where I worked we were not allowed to approach the costumers on our own, instead we were sent over by the manager after he had asked the guy what kind of girl he wanted. My club had a restaurant upstairs so sometimes you would go for dinner with the costumer and get a percentage of the food ordered, there was also a karaoke and if you did that you would also get money from it. Obviously you also do private dances but my experience is that you only dance for one or a few guys per night, it is not a quick hustle, you really need to entertain them. Some guys will not even go for dances but in the end when paying their bill they will put down 50-100 dances on their bill for you. My club also wanted you to go for dinner with costumers before work and then bring them in, if you didnt do this 1-2 times per week they would fine you...this was a few years ago but I assume its not that different now.
My ex fling moved to Japan again April 2011 to teach English. He went to Nagano but now hes teaching in Tokyo.
I know some girls who are heading over early next year on a 3month contract (flights paid). Drink for pay and lapdances upstairs (they turn on lights if the club is about to be raided). Don't know the name of the club.
Differences = what cairalis said. Also, dances are between $50-80 us dollars per song. Also, they don't do as much stage but when they do they all do a shit ton of really cool plow tricks and a lot less floor work and booty shaking :)
I got into GABA because I wanted to teach during the day, but not an elementary, junior high or high school. Most of the other Jukus and language schools are evening classes, and that's the time I want to spend with my family.
I found most of the schools via Internet searches and a few others via word of mouth. Most of the schools will train you with their own programs, but if you teach in a normal Japanese school you need your own training and lesson plans.
^ Did you see any girls do team pole tricks? (Back in Guam) We used to have strippers from rappongi who were on vacation come in and work with us for a night or do a few stage shows and once these two girls graced us with their awesome team pole skills. So two of them start doing pole tricks on the same pole, which was cool but nothing new then one extends her arm and the second one starts doing intermediate level polework using her extended arm as if were a pole. It was the first time i had ever seen anything like that and it was so cool!
Japanese strippers are super entertaining on stage! Speaking of which, what is the tipping process like in Japan? I'm super curious about this because Japanese tourists commonly had to be taugt to tip on stage because allegedly, there are some cultural differences pertaining to tipping.
We didn't stay very long in the club since you had to shell out a shit ton of money just to have a dancer sit with you. ugh. So I didn't see any team pole tricks, but I would believe it. The dancers we saw were all amazing pole dancers. Puts me to shame! lol
Now that I think about it, the japanese guys didn't really tip all that much. Now I'll have to go back and pay more attention. :D
Barely any tips on stage.
anyone of you knows if they are offering again working visa for eu citizens?