Rie Katayama started practicing gymnastic when she was 10 years old, then learned Rhythm gymnastic and joined high school competitions.

She also learned modern dance, jazz dance and classic ballet during teenager.

She started dancing Flamenco in Japan in 2000, then continue taking training in USA and Spain from many world top flamenco dancers like Belen Maya, Omayra Amaya, Carmela Greco, Paloma Gomez, Miguel Vargas, Amelia Vega, Alfonso Roso, Maria Torres, La Tati, Jose Barrios, Manuel Linnan, Belen de la Quintana, Adi Movdat, Concha Jareno and Olga Pericet. She has been practicing more than a year under maestro David Romero who just won 1^st prize of the best Flamenco male dancer in the international competition of en el cante de las Minas 2022. 

She has been performing at many public and private events, restaurants, museum, also join Surabhi group occasionally.  

She practiced for several years in Studio Mangiameli, and joined the opening performance of the US largest flamenco festival at Albuquerque, NM in 2016 as a member of Studio Mangiameli.

She started teaching flamenco in a group called Flamenco Cerezo in 2015. And she carried over a dance director of Flamenco Expresivo in 2020 which is a part of Dancexpress studio. She has been doing choreograph for her class items and having annual student show. Some students are living in CA and taking her class by online.