Nouvelles du Japon / News from Japan

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[mizuko]

A cheerful news from Japan

NBS annoucend the program and the cast for New Univers of Manuel Legris II in July and also for Nicolas Le Riche's gala Etoiles... in August 2011. Legris dances with Aurélie Dupont and Le Riche dances with her, too! Furthermore, both in Robbins' In the Night

Details are coming tomorrow.

[mizuko]

Here you go.


The New Univers of Manuel Legris II

13-18 July 2011
U-Port Hall, Tokyo

with
Manuel Legris (Director, Vienna State Ballet)
Aurélie Dupont (Etoile, l'Opéra de Paris)
Friedemann Vogel (Principal, Stuttgart Ballet)
Patrick de Bana
Ilze Liepa (Soloist, Bolchoi Ballet)

Vienna State Ballet
Olga Esina, Maria Yakovleva, Liudmila Konovalova, Nina Poláková
Roman Lazik, Vladimir Shishov, Denys Cherevychko
Kirill Kourlaev, Eno Peci, Mihail Sosnocschi


Program A Wednesday 13 (18:30) and Saturday 16 (14:00), July 2011

White Shadows (chor: Patrick de Bana / music: Armand Amar)
Manuel Legris, Patrick de Bana
Mika Yoshioka, Mizuka Ueno, Mayumi Nishimura, the Tokyo Ballet

Tarantella (George Balanchine / Louis Moreau Gottschalk)
Maria Yakovleva, Denys Cherevychko

La Chauve Souris (Roland Petit / Johann Strauss Fils)
Olga Esina, Vladimir Shishov

La Sylphide act II (Pierre Lacotte / Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhoeffer)
Aurélie Dupont, Friedemann Vogel
the Tokyo Ballet

(to be announced)
Ilza Liepa

Canon from Le Souffle de L'Esprit (Jiří Bubeníček / Pachelbel, Hofstetter, Otto Bubeníček)
Denys Cherevychko, Roman Lazik, Mihail Sosnocschi

Anna Karenina (Boris Eifman / Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
Olga Esina, Kirill Kourlaev

Black Swan pas de deux (Rudolf Nureev / Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
Liudmila Konovalova, Vladimir Shishov

Suite of Manon (Kenneth MacMillan / Jules Massenet)
Nina Poláková, Roman Lazik
Maria Yakovleva, Friedemann Vogel
Aurélie Dupont, Manuel Legris



Program B Friday 15 (18:30), Sunday 17 and Monday (holiday) 18 (14:00), July 2011

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (George Balanchine / Pyotr Thcaikovsky)
Maria Yakovleva, Denys Cherevychko

Arepo (Maurice Béjart / Charles François Gounod, Hugues le Bars, Elisabeth Cooper)
Eno Peci

Créatures (Patrick de Bana / Dem Trio (Turkish traditional music), Madjid Khaladj, Dhafer Youssef)
Mizuka Ueno, Patrick de Bana

Before Nightfall (Nils Christe / Bohuslav Martinů)
Nina Poláková, Mihail Sosnocschi

Roméo et Juliette (Jean-Christophe Maillot / Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
or
Notre-Dame de Paris (Roland Petit / Maurice Jarre)
Olga Esina, Kirill Kourlaev

Grand Pas Classique (Victor Gsovsky / Daniel-Francis-Esprit Auber)
Liudmila Konovalova, Friedemann Vogel

Ludwig (Patrick de Bana / Richard Wagner)
Nina Poláková, Maria Yakovleva, Manuel Legris

La Chauve Souris (Roland Petit / Johann Strauss Fils)
Olga Esina, Eno Peci

Five Tangos (Hans van Manen / Astor Piazzola)
Mihail Sosnocschi

Silent Voice (Patrick de Bana)
Ilza Liepa, Patrick de Bana

Proust ou les intermittences du coeur (Roland Petit / Gabriel Fauré)
Vladimir Shishov, Roman Lazik

Flammes de Paris (Vassili Vaïnonen / Boris Asafiev)
Liudmila Konovalova, Denys Cherevychko

In the Night (Jerome Robbins / Frédéric Chopin)
Maria Yakovleva, Friedemann Vogel
Oiga Esina, Roman Lazik
Aurélie Dupont, Manuel Legris

[mizuko]

Nicolas Le Riche Etoiles...

12-18 August 2011
U-port Hall, Tokyo

with
Nicolas Le Riche
Aurélie Dupont
Clairemarie Osta
Dorothée Gilbert
Mathias Heymann
Stéphane Bullion

Program A Friday 12 (18:30), Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 (14:00), August 2011

Suite en Blanc (chor: Serge Lifar / music: Edouard Lalo)
Nicolas Le Riche, Aurélie Dupont, Clairemarie Osta, Dorothée Gilbert, Mathias Heymann, Stéphane Bullion
the Tokyo Ballet

(to be announced)
Dorothée Gilbert, Stéphane Bullion

Giselle (Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot / Adolphe Adam)
Aurélie Dupont, Nicolas Le Riche

Sonatine (George Balanchine / Maurice Ravel)
Clairemarie Osta, Mathias Heymann

Aunis (Jacques Garnier / Maurice Pacher)
Nicolas Le Riche, Mathias Heymann, Stéphane Bullion

The Annunciation (Angelin Preljocaj / Stephane Roy, Antonio Vivaldi)
Clairemarie Osta, Dorothée Gilbert

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (Roland Petit / Johann Sebastian Bach)
Nicolas Le Riche, Aurélie Dupont



Program A Tuesday 16, Wednessday 17, Thursday 18 (18:30), August 2011

Grand Pas Classique (Victor Gsovsky / Daniel-Francis-Esprit Auber)
Dorothée Gilbert, Mathias Heymann

La Dame aux camélias (John Neumeier / Frédéric Chopin)
Clairemarie Osta, Stéphane Bullion

Amoveo (Benjamin Millepied / Philip Glass)
Aurélie Dupont, Nicolas Le Riche

Other Dances (Jerome Robbins / Frédéric Chopin)
Dorothée Gilbert, Mathias Heymann

Caligula (Nicolas Le Riche / Antonio Vivaldi)
Stéphane Bullion, Clairemarie Osta

The Kingdom of Shades, La Bayadère (Marius Petipa / Léon Minkus)
Aurélie Dupont, Nicolas Le Riche
the Tokyo Ballet

In the Night (Jerome Robbins / Frédéric Chopin)
Clairemarie Osta, Mathias Heymann
Dorothée Gilbert, Stéphane Bullion
Aurélie Dupont, Nicolas Le Riche

[maraxan]

Leanne Benjamin (Royal Ballet) et César Morales (Birmingham Royal Ballet) doivent danser Roméo et Juliette de Kenneth MacMillan les 26 juin et 1er juillet au New National Theatre de Tokyo.

[LucyOnTheMoon]

Mercredi 6 avril, 20h, le Théâtre des Champs Elysées programme une soirée au profit de la Croix Rouge japonaise en partenariat avec la Croix Rouge française, à qui la recette sera reversée.

http://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/saison-detail.php?t=7&s=201

Avec, notamment, la participation de Sylvie Guillem et Nicolas Le Riche...

[mizuko]

Some updates about the shows in Japan.

Irina Kolesnikova St. Petersburg Ballet Theater's Japan Tour with "Swan Lake", scheduled from 13th to 19th April 2011, is postponed until May due to the effects of the earthquake and tsunami last month. Re-scheduled tour will be from 6th to 9th, in Tokyo and on 11th, in Nagoya, May 2011.
http://eplus.jp/sys/web/s/spbt/information_e.html
http://eplus.jp/sys/web/s/spbt/index_e.html

Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theater cancelled their shows of Scènes de Ballet (Ashton)/Raymonda Act III (Petipa)/The Rake’s Progress (de Valois) in Tokyo from 22th to 24th April 2011 due to the effects of the earthquake and tsunami last month.
http://www.nkbt-tokyo.com/

Matsuyama Ballet cancelled their show "HAKUMOJO - The White Haired Girl" (Shimizu) in Fuchu, suburb of Tokyo, on 29th April 2011 due to the effects of the earthquake and tsunami last month. They will do the same program in Tokyo from 3rd to 5th May.
http://www.matsuyama-ballet.com/performance/index.html (japanese)


Miyako Yoshida and Star Dancers Ballet will do Cinderella (Suzuki) in Kawasaki, suburb of Tokyo, on 7, 8 and 10 April 2011 as scheduled. They've already done the same program at the same theater on 31th March.
http://www.sdballet.com/

The Tokyo Ballet will do La Bayadère (Makarova) in Tokyo from 13 to 17 April 2011. There's no announcement about the shows from the company, so maybe that means they will be doing as scheduled. Friedemann Vogel and Leonid Sarafanov are scheduled to guest. Vogel will partner Mizuka Ueno (13, 16/04) and Sarafanov partner Rieko Koide (14, 17/04).
http://www.nbs.or.jp/stages/1104_labayadere/index.html

The New National Theatre, Tokyo, director David Bintley, which cancelled all the performances in March, will do Aladdin (Bintley) from 2nd to 8th May 2011 as scheduled.
http://www.atre.jp/11aladdin/index.html

Birmingham Royal Ballet Japan Tour with Sleeping Beauty (Wright) and The Dream (Ashton)/Daphnis and Chloé (Ashton) is scheduled from 21 to 29 May 2011, in Tokyo, with Miyako Yoshida in the Dream and Tamara Rojo in Sleeping Beauty as guests. They will do Sleeping Beauty on 14th May in Kamakura and 19th in Nakoya, and The Dream/Daphnis and Chloé on 25th May in Kobe. Also NBS announced today that a charity performance of the Dream with Yoshida is added and will be held on 17th May in Tokyo. Part of the profit will be donated to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami last month.
http://www.nbs.or.jp/stages/1105_birmingham/index.html


And this is not about the shows, and sorry to be late to inform, but some dancers of POB gave warm messages (handwriting!) to the Japanese people, which are shared on the web site of Dance Cube. Merci !!!
http://www.chacott-jp.com/magazine/news/other-news/post-65.html

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Cast changes of the Tokyo Ballet La Bayadère (Makarova).
http://www.nbs.or.jp/blog/news/contents/topmenu/post-310.html

Friedemann Vogel was not permitted to come to Japan by his company as they are concerning that the government of Germany has issued a warning against to travel to Japan. Matthew Golding of Dutch National Ballet replaces him and partners Mizuka Ueno. I think it's his debut in Japan. Maybe I will be sad that I cannot go to see him.

Leonid Sarafanov had to withdrawn due to injury, as you know. A good surprise that Igor Zelensky replaces him. He will partner Reiko Koide.

These cast changes are made by NBS and Natalia Makarova and Olga Evreyev.

[mizuko]

Another strong earthquake occured just now (07/04/2011 23:32 JT). The center was Tohoku. It was strong in Tokyo, too. I hope there's not much damage there.

Anyway, NBS shares a message from Sylvie Guillem for Japan in Japanese and French:
http://www.nbs.or.jp/blog/news/contents/topmenu/post-312.html


I'm very very touched by their thoughts and what they did for Japan at TCE last night. Merci !

[sophia]

José Martinez récupère des chaussons (pointes et demi-pointes) de solistes ou étoiles de grandes compagnies, usagés et surtout dédicacés. Une vente sera organisée au Japon afin de récolter des fonds.

Les chaussons sont à envoyer à l'Opéra de Paris, à l'attention de José Martinez (8, rue Scribe, 75009 Paris).

[mizuko]

Wow, great news! C'est très gentil de sa part ! Merci
Looking forward to more details and I would really love to help. Someone please tell him so.

By the way, it's kind of tense here because some rather strong quakes have been hitting Fukushima today. One of them was magnitude 7.1 around 5:20PM. The train service in Tokyo, too, went temporarily out of service. I was stuck in very crowded subway for a while. But I'm ok and got home safe after all

[frederic]

Diffusion fort tardive de "hope Japan" sur France 2 avec Sylvie Guillem, Nicolas Le Riche, Martha Argerich, Natalie Dessay, Rollando Villazon...

[mizuko]

Tokyo Ballet La Bayadère (Makarova) will open tomorrow. There're some photos featuring two guests Igor Zelensky and Matthew Golding from rehearsals on Tokyo Ballet's blog.
http://www.thetokyoballet.com/blog/?id=393

Well, eastern Japan has been quite shaking today. Several rather strong earthquakes hit Tohoku, Kanto (where Tokyo is), Chuetu areas, which covers east half of Japan. I think the earth is still feeling uncomfortable with the placement of the ground and fixing it. I hope she considers about us living on the ground and does it gently and nicely.

Thanking for Zelensky and Golding, and Olga Evreyev, too!, for coming to Japan in this hard time, fingers crossed for the premiere of tomorrow ! Wish I could be there !

[mizuko]

Some updates from Tokyo.

- Emmanuel Thibault sera invité dans La Sylphide (Seki) avec Inoue Ballet, Tokyo, les 16 et 17 (15h00) juillet 2011.
http://ticket.pia.jp/pia/event.do?eventCd=1116092

- Message from David Bintley, Director, Birmingham Royal Ballet. He was actually in Tokyo that day 11 March 2011 when the earthquake occurred, as Director of the New National Ballet of Japan, the New National Theatre, Tokyo and also as the choreographer of Take Five which the company was about to premiere the following Saturday. He is coming back to Tokyo next month with Birmingham Royal Ballet. They will be touring Japan with Sleeping Beauty (Wright) and The Dream (Ashton)/Daphnis and Chloé (Ashton) from 14 to 29 May 2011.
http://www.nbs.or.jp/blog/news/contents/topmenu/post-319.html (japanese/english)

- Backstage report with some photos of Tokyo Ballet La Bayadère (Makarova)
http://www.thetokyoballet.com/blog/?id=398
http://www.thetokyoballet.com/blog/?id=397

[mizuko]

Sad news...