A delicious confection: The Tokyo Ballet in The Nutcracker
Akira Akiyama allies strength with a lovely soft delicacy. She finds remarkable lightness is everything as she speaks with her whole body
Japan/日本
Béjart’s spellbinding Les Chaises headlines Programme B of the 16th World Ballet Festival on demand
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
The 16th World Ballet Festival on demand
Everything is straight out of the top drawer in the first of two programmes from the festival held in Tokyo in August 2021
Exuberance and fine dancing in The Tokyo Ballet’s Don Quixote
A ballet that’s fun and guaranteed to lift the spirits
Dancing Mishima: The Tokyo Ballet in Maurice Béjart’s M
Filled with luscious vocabulary and striking metaphors
A tale of two Giselles: The Royal Ballet in Japan
There is so much to say about Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov, and so few ways of saying it