Nanase was trained at Elmhurst School for Dance in United Kingdom and graduated with a National Diploma in Professional Dance in 2009 before joining SDT in January 2010 as an apprentice. She had danced in MacMillan’s Calliope Rag from “Elite Syncopations”, “Don Quixote” Act 3 pas de deux. She was also involved in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 2008/2009 Autumn season and performed in David Bintley’s Beauty and the Beast, MacMilliam’s Concerto and Firebird.