Nouvelles du Japon / News from Japan

[mizuko]

The New National Theatre, Tokyo (le New National Ballet du Japon) montrera Roméo et Juliette de MacMillan du 25 juin au 3 juillet. Leanne Benjamin du Royal Ballet de Londres, César Morales du Birmingham Royal Ballet et Denis Matviyenko de Mariinsky Bellet seront invités, comme prévu. Ils viendront au Japon.


The New National Theatre, Tokyo
Roméo et Juliette (MacMillan)


Distribution:

Samedi, 25 juin 2011, 14h00

Roméo : Denis Matviyenko
Juliette : Ayako Ono
Mercutio : Akimitsu Yahata
Tybalt : Maylen Tleubaev
Benvolio : Nozomu Haga
Paris : Tetsuo Kaigawa


Dimanche, 26 juin 2011, 14h00

Roméo : César Morales
Juliette : Leanne Benjamin
Mercutio : Keigo Fukuda
Tybalt : Takuya Wajima
Benvolio : Hideo Sugano
Paris : Yasuo Atsuji


Mercredi, 29 juin 2011, 19h00

Roméo : Denis Matviyenko
Juliette : Ayako Ono
Mercutio : Akimitsu Yahata
Tybalt : Maylen Tleubaev
Benvolio : Nozomu Haga
Paris : Tetsuo Kaigawa


Vendredi, 1 juillet 2011, 19h00

Roméo : César Morales
Juliette : Leanne Benjamin
Mercutio : Keigo Fukuda
Tybalt : Takuya Wajima
Benvolio : Hideo Sugano
Paris : Yasuo Atsuji


Samedi, 2 juillet 2011, 14h00

Roméo : Yudai Fukuoka
Juliette : Miwa Motojima
Mercutio : Akimitsu Yahata
Tybalt : Kazunori Furukawa
Benvolio : Yasuo Atsuji
Paris : Takuya Wajima


Dimanche, 3 juillet 2011, 14h00

Roméo : Ryuji Yamamoto
Juliette : Hana Sakai
Mercutio : Keigo Fukuda
Tybalt : Kazunori Furukawa
Benvolio : Yasuo Atsuji
Paris : Takuya Wajima


http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/ballet/e20000352_ballet.html

[mizuko]

Drastic cast change in Manuel Legris' gala in Tokyo next month. 8 in total out of 15 have been withdrawn; Aurélie Dupont, Ilze Liepa, Olga Esina, Maria Yakovleva, Kirill Kourlaev, Eno Peci, due to concern about the effect of the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis, Roman Lazik and Vladimir Shishov, due to injury. Maria Eichwald from Stuttgart Ballet, Barbora Kohoutkova(, newly joined Vienna State Ballet?), Dmitry Gudanov from Bolchoi Ballet and Masayu Kimoto of Vienna State Ballet will replace them.

This must have been really difficult to fix to go ahead with the tour. So, I feel so much grateful for Manuel Legris and the dancers who are coming to Japan in this situation.


Here's the latest cast and programmes from NBS.


The New Univers of Manuel Legris II

13-18 July 2011
U-Port Hall, Tokyo

with
Manuel Legris (Director, Vienna State Ballet)
Maria Eichwald (Principal, Stuttgart Ballet)
Friedemann Vogel (Principal, Stuttgart Ballet)
Barbora Khoutkova (Guest soloist, Vienna State Ballet)
Dmitry Gudanov (Principal, Bolchoi Ballet)
Patrick de Bana

Vienna State Ballet
Liudmila Konovalova, Nina Poláková
Denys Cherevychko, Mihail Sosnocschi, Masayu Kimoto


<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

Le Corsaire (Marius Petipa / Riccardo Drigo)
Maria Yakovleva, Denys Cherevychko

Manon pas de deux from act I (Kenneth MacMillan / Jules Massenet)
Barbora Kohoutkova, Friedemann Vogel

Arepo (Maurice Béjart / Charles François Gounod, Hugues le Bars, Elisabeth Cooper)
Mihail Sosnocschi

La Sylphide act II (Pierre Lacotte / Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhoeffer)
Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto
the Tokyo Ballet

Fancy Goods (Marco Goecke)
Friedemann Vogel

Black Swan pas de deux (Rudolf Nureev / Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
Liudmila Konovalova, Dmirty Gudanov, Mihail Sosnocschi

Oneguine pas de deux from act III (John Cranko / Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
Maria Eichwald, Manuel Legris



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

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

Don Quixote (Rudolf Nureev / Ludwig Minkus)
Liudmila Konovalova, Denys Cherevychko

Mopey (Marco Goecke)
Masayu Kimoto

La Dame aux camélias (John Neumeier / Frédéric Chopin)
Maria Eichwald, Friedemann Vogel

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

Manon pas de deux from act I (Kenneth MacMillan / Jules Massenet)
Nina Poláková, Manuel Legris

Silent Cries (Patrick de Bana)
Patrick de Bana

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

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

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (George Balanchine / Pyotr Thcaikovsky)
Barbora Kohoutkova, Friedemann Vogel

Oneguine pas de deux from act III (John Cranko / Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
Maria Eichwald, Manuel Legris

[mizuko]

C'est confirmé !
Kevin McKenzie, Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre, officially says that ABT goes ahead with its tour of Japan in late July. The impresario Japan Arts shares his message on their blog. And there is also a video message from Daniil Simkin.

http://ja-ballet.seesaa.net/article/211405878.html

[mizuko]

News!

Diana Vishneva dansera Giselle à Tokyo avec le Tokyo Ballet en août prochain. Elle sera aux côtés de Semyon Chudin du Stanislavsky Ballet. NBS a annoncé aujourd'hui.


Giselle

les 17, 18 août 2011, 19h00
à U-port Hall, Tokyo

avec
Diana Vishneva
Semyon Chudin
le Tokyo Ballet

tarif: 13,000 yen (S-class), 11,000 yen (A-class), 9,000 yen (B-class), 7,000 yen (C-class), 5,000 yen (D-class) en vent à partir du 16 juillet

contact par e-mail: english@nbs.or.jp

http://www.nbs.or.jp/stages/1108_giselle/index.html (en japonais)


So nice that she is coming to Japan


Et voici quelques images de sa Giselle en 2006 à Tokyo (de NBS)
http://youtu.be/rpQDcgJr9uA

[mizuko]

Une bonne nouvelle encore!

Éonnagata, de Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage et Russell Maliphant, sera présentée à Tokyo en novembre comme une partie de Hope Japan Tour, NBS a annoncé aujourd'hui.

EONNAGATA

les 17 (19h00), 18 (19h00), 19 (15h00), 20 (15h00), novembre 2011
à U-port Hall, Tokyo

avec
Sylvie Guillem
Robert Lepage
Russell Maliphant

Tarif: 15,000 yen (S-class), 13,000 yen (A-class), 10,000 yen (B-class), 7,000 yen (C-class), 5,000 yen (D-class) en vent à partir du 30 juillet

Référence par e-mail: english@nbs.or.jp




Le site officiel de EONNAGATA: http://www.nbs.or.jp/stages/1111_eonnagata/index.html (en japonais)

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[Gabriele Steidler]

Manuel Legris' message to the Japanese audience:

http://madamefigaro.jp/f-channel/category/etc/18453.html

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Un article de Japan Times, en anglais, sur le New National Theatre Ballet de Tokyo, concernant la création de David Bintley "The Prince of the Pagodas", la première est le 30 octobre, et la tournée au Japon de Bimingham Royal Ballet en mai.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110710x1.html


En ce qui concerne de The Prince of the Pagodas, il y a des images de répétition sur le site de New National Ballet;
http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/release/updata/20001550.html

et

une vidéo dans laquelle Bintley parle de sa création.
http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/nbj/index.html

[mizuko]

Voici la distribution pour les rôles principaux de The Prince of the Pagodas (Bintley/Britten) de the New National Ballet de Tokyo.

http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/ballet/e20000444_2_ballet.html#cast

[mizuko]

Japan Arts annonce la tournée au Japon du Bolchoï Ballet en janvier-février 2012, avec la distribution (un peu décevant...) de Tokyo voici:

- à Tokyo Bunka Kaïkan, Tokyo

Spartacus

Mardi 31 janvier 2012, 18h30
Spartacus: Ivan Vasiliev
Phrygia: Svetlana Lunkina
Crassus: Alexander Volchkov
Aegina: Ekaterina Shipulina

Mercredi 1 février 2012, 18h30
Spartacus: Pavel Dmitrichenko
Phrygia: Anna Nikulina
Crassus: Yury Baranov
Aegina: Maria Alexandrova

Jeudi 2 février 2012, 18h30
Spartacus: Ivan Vasiliev
Phrygia: Svetlana Lunkina
Crassus: Alexander Volchkov
Aegina: Maria Allash



Le Lac des cygnes

Samedi 4 février 2012, 14h00
Maria Alexandrova
Rouslan Skvortsov
Pavel Dmitrichenko

Jeudi 9 février 2012, 13h00
Anna Nikulina
Semyon Chudin
Vladislav Lantratov

Jeudi 9 février 2012, 18h30
Ekaterina Shipulina
Rouslan Skvortsov
Pavel Dmitrichenko


Raymonda

Mardi 7 février 2012, 18h30
Maria Alexandrova
Alexander Volchkov
Pavel Dmitrichenko

Mercredi 8 février 2012, 18h30
Maria Allash
Alexander Volchkov
Ivan Vasiliev


Source: http://ja-ballet.seesaa.net/article/214600934.html

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http://www.fujitv.co.jp/events/etoiles/index.html

[haydn]

Celebrated U.S. ballet to tour Japan, par Wade Bunnel (The Japan Times)

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The American Ballet Theatre is coming to Japan in a few days for its Japan Tour which starts on 21st this month. David Hallberg will be appearing in a talk show on the ustream, which will be streamed live on 20th July, beginning at 20h45 Japan time, at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yuyamareikotv

[mizuko]

ABT is currently touring Japan. Half of the performances in Tokyo are already done. They did the "Opening Gala" on 21st, Special Don Quixote on 22nd, and 4 Don Qs in a row on last weekend. I attended the matinée Don Q on Saturday, in which Gillian Murphy and David Hallberg starred. I surely enjoyed the performance. Hallberg leaps and turns beautifully. Murphy was cute Kitri and her grand fouetté was AMAZING and clean at the same time. Don Q is always fun to watch. But there was something missing in that performance, I felt. Maybe there was a little lack of a load of energy, or hustle and bustle in a spanish town. Hallberg looked too elegant for Basilio to my eyes (I like Hallberg anyway) and I thought like lustier and impisher Basilio fits more Murphy's cute but not so much full of passion Kitri.(It was just that day? watch --> Japan Arts PV of ABT Japan tour I saw Murphy for the first time in full-length, by the way.) If it was Ethan Stiefel at the side of her as planned at first, it should have been different? (Stiefel withdrew from ABT's Spring Season and Japan tour so as to focus on his duties as dean of dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/ethan-stiefel-to-withdraw-from-american-ballet-theaters-spring-season/?partner=rss&emc=rss )

Well, it seemed the matinée's became a warm-up performance for the soirée's. Yuriko Kajiya and Daniil Simkin took the main roles that night. Kajiya is the Japanese soloist of ABT and quite a technician. Simkin is 'very much' popular in Japan. I heard they brought down the house. This performance was filmed and will be broadcast through NHK BS next Saturday (July 30, 23:30-).

Also it seems the matinée on Sunday was a great performance, even though there was a last minute cast change in Basilio. Angel Corella withdrew due to sickness and Marcelo Gomes stepped in. And the soirée Don Q was the last performance for Jose Carreño with ABT. He has been loved by Japanese audience for a long time, too. So I think it might have been an emotional performance.

See some photos on Japan Arts ballet blog.
http://ja-ballet.seesaa.net/article/216589160.html