Takana Kojima (dancer) is a master of Taka-ryu School of the Hana-no-kai Association. She trained Ryukyu Buyo dance under Takako Sato. She earned two master's degrees, one in ethnomusicology in 1998 and the other is theater arts in 2003, both from the Graduate School of Music Arts, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. In 2006, she became an exchange fellow under the Okinawa International Exchange & Human Resource Development Foundation, and taught and performed Ryukyuan dance at The University of Arts in Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Okinawa Performing Arts North America Tour in Commemoration of G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit in 2000, which toured to Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Toronto and Ottawa. Other noteworthy performance credits include Ryukyu dance program to welcome then Crown Prince Naruhito's visit to Okinawa in 2001; Central Asia Tour organized/presented by The Japan Foundation to perform in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Hungary in 2002; and the inaugural program of the National Theatre Okinawa in 2004. Recently, Kojima performed in "Women Perform Kumiodori: Syushin Kaneiri" at National Theatre Okinawa in 2018; and presented her second recital of “Kojima Takana no Kai: an invitation to Ryukyuan dance” at Koganei Miyaji Music Hall in 2021. Kojima is a recipient of the Encouragement Award for Dance at the Okinawa Times Geijutsu Sensho Awards, and is a member of the Ryukyu Buyo Preservation Association and an operational member of the National Theatre Okinawa.