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A delicious confection: The Tokyo Ballet in The Nutcracker

February 1, 2023 by David Mead

Akira Akiyama allies strength with a lovely soft delicacy. She finds remarkable lightness is everything as she speaks with her whole body

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Japan/日本 Reviews Tags Nutcracker The Tokyo Ballet Yukari Saito

Béjart’s spellbinding Les Chaises headlines Programme B of the 16th World Ballet Festival on demand

December 22, 2021 by David Mead

The most interesting work without doubt is Béjart’s Les Chaises. Gil Roman is a fine actor while Alessandra Ferri is the powerful presence you would expect

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Japan/日本 Reviews Tags Béjart Ballet Lausanne Ben Stevenson Don Quixote John Neumeier Jorma Elo Le Corsaire Marius Petipa Maurice Bejart Swan Lake Victor Gsovsky

The 16th World Ballet Festival on demand

December 22, 2021December 21, 2021 by David Mead

Everything is straight out of the top drawer in the first of two programmes from the festival held in Tokyo in August 2021

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Japan/日本 Reviews Tags August Bournonville John Cranko John Neumeier Le Corsaire Leonid Lavrovsky Marius Petipa Mikhail Fokine Onegin Raymonda Romeo & Juliet

National Ballet of Japan in Roland Petit’s Coppélia

May 7, 2021May 6, 2021 by David Mead

A ballet of wit and humour

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Japan/日本 Reviews Tags Coppélia National Ballet of Japan Roland Petit

Exuberance and fine dancing in The Tokyo Ballet’s Don Quixote

December 29, 2020 by David Mead

A ballet that’s fun and guaranteed to lift the spirits

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Japan/日本 Reviews Tags Don Quixote Marius Petipa The Tokyo Ballet Vladimir Vasiliev

Dancing Mishima: The Tokyo Ballet in Maurice Béjart’s M

December 3, 2020 by David Mead

Filled with luscious vocabulary and striking metaphors

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Japan/日本 Reviews Tags Maurice Bejart The Tokyo Ballet

A tale of two Giselles: The Royal Ballet in Japan

December 22, 2016June 29, 2016 by David Mead

There is so much to say about Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov, and so few ways of saying it

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Japan/日本 Reviews Tags Giselle Natalia Osipova The Royal Ballet

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