Kae is a performing artist as well as a qualified bookkeeper. Kae understands the bookkeeping needs of artists.  Kae set up Arts and Accounts in 2019 after 11 years as Finance Officer with Scottish Ballet. She has a wide experience of finance in the Arts and can bring her experience to help you manage your finances.

Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Kae is a qualified Highland Dance teacher and a member of SDTA (Scottish Dance Teachers’ Alliance). With a background also in Ballet and Contemporary dance (Graham Method), Kae has become increasingly interested in Step Dancing since moving to Scotland. She runs a community step dance group ‘Kelvingrove Dancers’ in Glasgow and facilitates dance workshops, events and retreats inviting guest tutors internationally. She is also fiddler & caller with the Ardoch Ceilidh Band and Kelvingrove Ceilidh Band.

Her major project, the Sound of Dance is with which she aims to create a contemporary form of artistic expression using percussive dance. She has collaborated with musicians, bands and dancers; Janet Lees, Corran Raa, Ainsley Hamill, Barluath, Donald Lindsey, Wallace Calvert, Riko Matsuoka, Michael Smith, Lucie Hendry, Aneta Dortova, Jennifer Oag and Lora Abe.

In 2021, she made a dance film Antagata Doko Sa (Where are you from)’ with Monika Smekot. The film was officially selected by Screen.Dance – Scotalnd’s Festival of Dance on Screen as a part of DanceLive21 and screened. Special mention by Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival and Honorable mention by London International Monthly Film Festival.

Qualifications

Kae Sakurai MAAT, is a licensed bookkeeper regulated by The Association of Accounting Technicians to engage in public practice in ACCOUNTANCY: Bookkeeping, Payroll, CONSULTANCY: Computerised Accountancy Systems. Her Licence Number is 1003795.

Additionally, Kae has a partnership with Xero as Xero partner having completed her Xero Advisor Certificate and Xero Payroll Certificate. 

On demand, Kae became a QuickBooks Online Certified ProAdvisor.