Nouvelles du Japon / News from Japan

[mizuko]

Japan Arts a annoncé la prochaine tournée au japon de Mariinsky sera de novembre à décembre 2018, avec le Lac des cygnes, Don Quichotte et un autre.

[mizuko]

Bolshoi Ballet is currently touring Japan. This tour is one of the events of the Russian Season Festival. Here is a clip from the opening ceremony held at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan yesterday and the stage rehearsal of Giselle with Zakharova and Rodkin. Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/RFxW5jZwCvs

[mizuko]

NBS a annoncé que Sarah Lamb s'est blessée et retirée du Ballet Supreme à Tokyo le mois prochain. Elle sera remplacée par Francesca Hayward dans le programme A et Fumi Kaneko, qui se joindra, dans le programme B.
Voici les derniers programmes et distributions. Excusez-moi pour un mélange de français et d'anglais.

http://www.nbs.or.jp/english/news/20170626-01.html

http://www.nbs.or.jp/english/stages/2017/supreme/programs-and-casting.html


BALLET SUPREME

Programme A - les 26, 27 juillet 2017
Programme B - les 29 (m/s), 30 juillet 2017

Au Bunkyo Civic Hall, Tokyo


≪Program A≫

Team l'Opéra de Paris

Pas de deux from the second act of Swan Lake
Rudolf Nureyev's version
Performed by Mathias Heymann and Myriam Ould-Braham

Pas de trois from the third act of Swan Lake
Rudolf Nureyev's version
Performed by Léonore Baulac, Germain Louvet and François Alu

La Esmeralda pas de deux
Choreographed by Marius Petitpa
Performed by Hannah O'Neill and Hugo Marchand


Team The Royal Ballet

Rhapsody
Choreographed by Frederick Ashton
Performed by Iana Salenko and Steven McRae

A work by Liam Scarlett
Performed by Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé

Pas de deux from Giselle
Performed by Akane Takada and Benjamin Ella

Pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet
Choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan
Performed by Franesca Hayward and Federico Bonelli

Tap dance solo
Performed by Steven McRae

Collaboration of Paris Opera Ballet and The Royal Ballet
Divertissements from Don Quixote



≪Program B≫

Team The Royal Ballet

Pas de deux from The Dream
Choreographed by Frederick Ashton
Performed by Akane Takada and Benhamin Ella

Tarantella
Choreographed by George Balanchine
Performed by Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé

Pas de deux from the second act of Swan Lake
Choreographed by
Performed by Fumi Kaneko and Federico Bonelli

Pas de deux from Don Quixote
Choreographed by Marius Petitpa
Performed by Iana Salenko and Steven McRae


Team l'Opéra de Paris

Work to be announced
Performed by Mathias Heymann and Myriam Ould-Braham

Les Bourgeois
Choreographed by Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Performed by François Alu

Pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet
Choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev
Performed by Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet

Grand pas classique
Choreographed by Victor Gsovsky
Performed by Hannah O'Neill and Hugo Marchand

Collaboration of Paris Opera Ballet and The Royal Ballet
Divertissements from The Sleeping Beauty

[haydn]

[JMJ]

Pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet
Choreographed by Marius Petitpa


je pense que c'est une erreur, sinon je ne vois pas ce que c'est...

[sophia]

On ne le mentionne pas quand il le faudrait ou on le crédite de manière indue ou absurde. Pauvre Marius - dont on écorche jusqu'au nom!
S'ils veulent éviter Noureev, qu'ils mentionnent Lavrovsky.

[Delly]

Le Royal Ballet, lui, s'auto-supervise

Bon je suppose que c'est pour dire qu'elle sera là, coller à la formulation "Team" choisie. Un passage au Japon sans M. Ganio, ça fait bizarre, on n'a pas l'habitude. Changement de génération...

Alu sera là, de quoi rassurer un peu les fans?

[sophia]

C'est Steven McRae le "leader de la team RB".

[mizuko]

[mizuko]

NBS a annoncé que François Alu s'est blessée et retirée du Ballet Supreme à Tokyo. La première est demain!

http://www.nbs.or.jp/blog/news/contents/topmenu/post-724.html

BALLET SUPREME

Programme A - les 26, 27 juillet 2017
Programme B - les 29 (m/s), 30 juillet 2017

Au Bunkyo Civic Hall, Tokyo


≪Program A≫

Team l'Opéra de Paris

Pas de deux from the second act of Swan Lake
Rudolf Nureyev's version
Performed by Mathias Heymann and Myriam Ould-Braham

Pas de deux from the third act of Swan Lake
Rudolf Nureyev's version
Performed by Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet

La Esmeralda pas de deux
Choreographed by Marius Petitpa
Performed by Hannah O'Neill and Hugo Marchand


Team The Royal Ballet

Rhapsody
Choreographed by Frederick Ashton
Performed by Iana Salenko and Steven McRae

A work by Liam Scarlett
Performed by Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé

Pas de deux from Giselle
Performed by Akane Takada and Benjamin Ella

Pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet
Choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan
Performed by Franesca Hayward and Federico Bonelli

Tap dance solo
Performed by Steven McRae

Collaboration of Paris Opera Ballet and The Royal Ballet
Divertissements from Don Quixote



≪Program B≫

Team The Royal Ballet

Pas de deux from The Dream
Choreographed by Frederick Ashton
Performed by Akane Takada and Benhamin Ella

Tarantella
Choreographed by George Balanchine
Performed by Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé

Pas de deux from the second act of Swan Lake
Choreographed by
Performed by Fumi Kaneko and Federico Bonelli

Pas de deux from Don Quixote
Choreographed by Marius Petitpa
Performed by Iana Salenko and Steven McRae


Team l'Opéra de Paris

Work to be announced
Performed by Mathias Heymann and Myriam Ould-Braham

Manfred
Choreographed by Rudolf Noureev
Performed by Mathias Heymann

Pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet
Choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev
Performed by Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet

Grand pas classique
Choreographed by Victor Gsovsky
Performed by Hannah O'Neill and Hugo Marchand

Collaboration of Paris Opera Ballet and The Royal Ballet
Divertissements from The Sleeping Beauty

[mizuko]

Here's my impression on Ballet Supreme, which was such a fun and great project. I feel so much honored to see those wonderful dancers get together in Tokyo, inspiring each other, and giving us brilliant performances! The Royal Ballet team was greatly in shape. The team Paris Opera Ballet looked ok even though they landed in Japan the day before the premiere after 14-hour-flight from NY with 13-hour time difference. They were enjoying being on stage with fabulous dancers from London.

The Team Royal Ballet won Program A with the wonderful works of Ashton, MacMillan, Scarlett, Akane Takada's moving Giselle and superb tap dance by Steven McRae. McRae was the starter of Program A. He sat the audiences on fire with Ashton's Rhapsody. His partner Iana Salenko was so good, too. Asphodel Meadows was beautifully and impressively danced by Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé. Hayward also danced Juliet so vividly, somehow reminded me of Alessandra Ferri, with Federico Bonelli, an ideal Romeo in MacMillan's R&B. Akane Takada's Giselle was so moving but what she wowed the audiences most was her high saut! The second part was the Team Opéra de Paris. Myriam Ould-Braham and Mathias Heymann's Swan Lake grand adagio was nice and gentle but little emotion and I couldn't catch any story between Odette and Siegfried. Léonore Baulac obviously looked so tired, of course with this tough schedule, but I really loved her interpretation of Odile. Germain Louvet WAS her prince. He was truly noble, enough to take on additional 8 counts with grande pirouette à la seconde after Odile's 24 grand fuette at coda. Esmeralda was actually a refreshment. Hannah O'Neill and Hugo Marchand were shining in front of Japanese audiences. I loved their sublime Esmeralda but it seems most of us wanted some more punch and much more virtuoso. I have seen Mathias Heymann dance Manfred a couple of times before. This time I felt that he danced it in a bit kind of objective way, no narcissism, nor indulgence, and this was successful. It was somehow like Neumeier and I really liked it.

(to be continued...)


BALLET SUPREME

≪Program A≫

le 26 juillet 2017
au Bunkyo Civic Hall, Tokyo


Team The Royal Ballet

Rhapsody
Choreographed by Frederick Ashton
Performed by Iana Salenko and Steven McRae

Asphodel Meadows
Choreographed by Liam Scarlett
Performed by Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé

Pas de deux from Giselle
Performed by Akane Takada and Benjamin Ella

Tap dance solo "I've got rythem."
Performed by Steven McRae

Pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet
Choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan
Performed by Franesca Hayward and Federico Bonelli


Team l'Opéra de Paris

Pas de deux from the second act of Swan Lake
Rudolf Nureyev's version
Performed by Mathias Heymann and Myriam Ould-Braham

Black Swan pas de deux from the third act of Swan Lake
Rudolf Nureyev's version
Performed by Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet

La Esmeralda pas de deux
Choreographed by Marius Petitpa
Performed by Hannah O'Neill and Hugo Marchand


Collaboration of Paris Opera Ballet and The Royal Ballet
"Don Quixote" Divertissment

Kitri variation: Akane Takada
Kitri, Basilio pdd (of Acosta's version?): Akane Takada, Federico Bonelli
Kitri variation with castanets of Noureev version: Myriam Ould-Braham
Kitri, Basilio: Iana Salenko, Steven McRae
Basilio and Kitri's friends pas de trois of Noureev version: Hugo Marchand, Myriam Ould Braham, Léonore Baulac
Basilio variation alternately: Marcelino Sambé, Benjamin Ella

Cupid: Francesca Hayward
Queen of Dryads of Noureev Version: Hannah O'Neill

Kitri, Basilio adagio of gpdd of Noureev version: Léonore Baulac, Garmin Louvet
Basilio variation of Noureev version: Mathias Heymann
Kitri variation of Noureev version: Léonore Baulac

Coda: All

[mizuko]

Dans l'interview sur le dernier Dance Magazine de Shinshokan, Mathias Heymann annonce qu'il dansera Boléro de Béjart (début!!!) et Lenski dans Onégine cette season.

[Joelle]

[mizuko]

Please enjoy some photos from

Ballet Supreme
http://www.chacott-jp.com/magazine/world-report/from-tokyo/tokyo1709b.html

Legris Gala
http://www.chacott-jp.com/magazine/world-report/from-tokyo/tokyo1709a.html

Kyoto Ballet performance with Thomas Docquir and Eugénie Drion as guests
http://www.chacott-jp.com/magazine/world-report/from-osaka/osaka1709a.html

[mizuko]

Myriam Ould Braham will guest with the Tokyo City Ballet (not the Tokyo Ballet) in Swan Lake next March, replacing Iana Salenko who was initially scheduled to guest. She will be partnered by Dinu Tamazlacaru from Berlin. Vladimir Malakhov and Wieslaw Dudek will be guest ballet master for this Swan Lake. What is very interesting is that Tsuguharu Foujita is credited as scenographer.


Tokyo City Ballet
Swan Lake

Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Taneo Ishida, after Petipa/Ivanov
Scenography: Tsuguharu Foujita


Saturday, 3 March 2018, 17:00
Odette/Odile: Myriam Ould Braham
Prince Siegfried: Dinu Tamazlacaru


Sunday, 4 March 2018, 15:00
Odette/Odile: Rie Nakamori
Prince Siegfried: Se-Jong Kim


Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 18:30
Odette/Odile: Myriam Ould Braham
Prince Siegfried: Dinu Tamazlacaru


Conductor: Kazushi Ono
Orchestra: Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra


At Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

http://www.tokyocityballet.org/schedule/schedule_000336.html