^ Peco isn't a dancer. (not in the same sense as the others are)

:O Naoto left?
Why...! ;_;

12 put 150, that's not big selection... i mean,t here were many changes to each person!

get rid of preco XD

seems like a nice idea!

I think that they probably had more people, but narrowed it down to 150.

They probably also only chose from the best of the best from certain dance studios too. I think that she'll probably keep the dancers she has now and add these new 12 on. She hasn't had that many dancers in a while, so.. yeah.


As for PECO... I think that Chiharu and Etsu / SAM choreograph more often than PECO [who only seemed to do like, INSPIRE XD]

i doubt she's replacing any dancers at all. Instead, I have a sense that she'll be doing something big next year (her 10th anniversary rite?), so she will need more dancers. It's always good to see small group of dancers in the concert (so each dancer's unique character will be shown). Somehow I feel that it's time to expand the dancers group (to make the stage more crowded). It's getting smaller and smaller since.. 2002??

Btw... Hide is gone already???? I dun see him in Namie's video at all (Hide and Seek)?!

Awwww the worlds going to end now! :'(

I don't really care, but I do think the new dances will suffice, and they'll be as good as Gomi or Shuya.

10x for the info :) hope the new dancers will be good

I think he is dancing for Maki Goto now

...I think it's a good idea to have some changes now :innocent

interesting, thanks for the info

I'm wondering if this was the same sort of thing that she did for the Asayan dancers audition. The people she chose from there were used for Dome Tour BUT they were just additional people for certain acts of the show and weren't what we would consider her main line-up of backup dancers. They were like backups to the backup dancers.

Yes, it's true. Ayu wrote this herself in her "diary" on the Team Ayu website. Here's the "cut & paste" version of her entry...

*does the dramatic hamster look*
Maki Goto?!

Oh...
Well I hope the new dancers are good. Maybe she'll find a dancer even hotter then Naoto. :love lol :P

... what did she write? :o

Hi guys,i had made a slight translation for ayu's message above.;)

Basically,ayu just greeted her fans in the beginning part of the paragraphs~like her new single will be released soon,a nation is coming etc!

And 2nd portion,she wrote about her new songs~She hopes that the 2 songs in her new single will gather different feelings and memories from her fans~basically,just some thoughts from ayu about her new songs to her fans~

And lastly,about the dancer audition part!!

She wrote there had been a dancers audition yesterday and the day before~and 12 dancers had been selected out of 150 auditions!!!And they will "start appearing" on this years A-nation(so i guess all the dancers had been replaced..maybe leaving shuuya and gomi!?")

And its really cute that she wrote in the last part "So what kind of dancers will they be?How will they look?Im sure you guys must be really looking forward to it ne!See you ne!"

Hmmn.. start appearing @ a-nation..? Anywayz if your translation is correct, then she doesn't say anything about replacement at all.. Probly 12 dancers + the current members? I've been watching these people since AT 2004 and it'll be weird if they're all been replaced... :headache

After all this time...I still don't know who her current dancers are. All I know is one tends to have some weird facial hair. :laugh I don't really pay attention to the dancers individually. But eh...at least they're trying to keep it fresh.

yup...she wrote that...12 of them had been selected out of all the 150 pp at the auditions~and her new dancers will be taking part(introduced) on this year A-NATION.....and ayu didnt mention will her "previous" dancers remain...

anyway if u dun trust my translation...can get someone else to do it then...

Well, she probably wouldn't need to say anything if there wasn't going to be any changes in her current lineup.


I'd say that she is keeping her current dancers and getting "fresh" people just to mix things up a little. Most of her older dancers from 2002 [I think] left with her Afrojapanese backup singers, and the newer dancers we see today and PECO/Princess came along..