Nouvelles du Japon / News from Japan

[mizuko]

Some more updates.

Miho Fujii will appear in Ballet Asteras 2012 with Yannick Bittencourt and Grégory Dominiak in Tokyo on 22 July. They will dance Black Swan pas de trois from Noureev's Swan Lake.

Ballet Asteras is a gala for the dancers who are working abroad. It is commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and held by the Young Artists Training Programme of the New National Theatre, Tokyo. It has been held once a year since 2009 except for the last year which was cancelled in consequence of the Great East Japan Eearthquake (and tsunami) and the electricity shortage. Some dancers from the New National Ballet of Japan and the students the Young Artists Training Programme appear, and also the students of the San Francisco Ballet School will join as a special appearance this year.

Here's the cast and programme:


Ballet Asteras 2012

22 July, 2012
The New National Theatre, Tokyo


Marina Kanno, Rainer Krenstetter (Staatsballett Berlin)
Adagietto (Renato Zanella)

Nao Sakuma (the Birmingham Royal Ballet), Yasuo Atsuji (the New National Ballet of Japan)
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (George Balanchine)

Mayo Sugano (Diablo Ballet), Rory Hohenstein (Joffrey Ballet)
Age of Innocence (Edward Liang)

Erina Takahashi, Zdenek Konvalina (English National Ballet)
Don Quixote pdd

Shinobu Takita (The National Opera of Ukraine)
Dying Swan (Michel Fokine)

Miho Fujii, Yannick Bittencourt, Grégory Dominiak (l'Opéra de Paris)
Black Swan pas de trois from Swan Lake (Rudolf Noureev)

Yukiko Ito, Masahiro Nakaya (Maki Asami Ballet)
Romeo and Juliet Balcony pdd (Azari M. Plissetski)

Ayako Ono, Akimitsu Yahata (the New National Ballet)
Le Corsaire pdd

Miwa Motojima, Maylen Tleubaev (the New National Ballet)
Raymonda pdd (Asami Maki)

The San Francisco Ballet School
Spinae (Myles Thatcher)

The Young Artists Training Programme of the New National Theatre, Tokyo
Triptyque (Asami Maki)


Source: http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/ballet/20000646_ballet.html

[mizuko]

Miho Fujii and Yannick Bittencourt will also appear in All Nippon Ballet Gala 2012, a benefit gala in aid of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami relief, in Yokohama, 14 August, and Tokyo, 15 August. They will dance José Martinez's Delibes Suite in both shows. Mimoza Koike will be joining from les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, too.

http://nippon-balletgala.com/

[mizuko]

L'Academie de Ballet de Kyoto, the ballet school of Ryuko Arima Ballet, will invite Isabelle Ciaravola for to teach in a special summer programme in this August. She will teach a class each on 25 and 26 August.

http://www.kyoto-ballet-academy.com/news/detail.shtml?1339123024


Speaking of Ryuko Arima Ballet, I don't know if Clara magazine of Shinshokan will be in the boutique of Palais Garnier, there's an article about Don Quichotte with Karl Paquette and Héloïse Bourdon last month with several beautiful photos in the latest issue.





It seems they gave a quite good performance. According to the comments on the Japanese section, Héloïse Bourdon was very lively as Kitri and beautiful as Dulcinea. The Fabrice Bourgeois's Don Quichotte seems a friendly and fun version, in which Cupid was danced by a young male dancer, Masahiro Suehara, with the music adapted from Fokine's le Pavillon d'Armide known as the music of one of Paquita's variation (there's a video with Aurélie Dupont). Karl Paquette was enjoying the stage so much and Syril Atanassof as Don Quixote impressed the audience. It seems they were quite well-received.

[mizuko]

One more news.

Japanese TV NHK will go into the Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School tomorrow evening (in Japan). Kenta Kura, Soloist with RB, will be reporting live from London.

NHK BS1 El Mundo
18 June 2012, from 23:00 (JT)

[mizuko]

According to NBS's announcement, Sergei Polunin is not coming to Japan for the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo this summer. However, the good news is that Steven McRae will be joining, instead, all the programmes and he will open the festival with Tamara Rojo in Don Quixote on 29 July. The rest of the programmes are to be announced.


There're some more new casts for the festival. Elisabet Ros, Kateryna Shalkina and Oscar Chacon will also appear from Béjart Ballet Lausanne, as well as Gil Roman. The programmes are already announced by NBS:


<Programme A>

Brel et Barbara (Béjart / Brel, Barbara)
Elisabet Ros, Gil Roman


<Programme B>

Le Parsifal (Béjart / Wagner) (from La Mort Subite (?))
Kateryna Shalkina, Oscar Chacon


<Gala>

L'Amour et la mort (Béjart / Mahler) (from La Mort du Tambour (?))
Kateryna Shalkina, Oscar Chacon

[mizuko]

New National Theatre, Tokyo announced the new Artistic Directors from 2014/2015 season. As for Ballet & Dance, Noriko OHARA is to be appointed as Artistic Director for four years effective on 1 Septembre 2014. This means David Bintley, current AD, will step down at the end of August 2014. Since National Ballet of Japan is in good form now, Bintley's stepping down is kind of a little disappointing news. They have two more years, though. Maybe being two companies' AD at the same time in England and Japan is too hard...

http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/release/updata/e30000002.html

[mizuko]

Jiří Bubeníček's gala will be presented by Bunkamura, Tokyo, on the New Year. It seems Dorothée Gilbert and Hervé Moreau will join.


Bubenicek New Year Gala - Canon -

5, 6, 7 January 2013
Bunkamura Orchard Hall

with
Jiří Bubeníček
Otto Bubeníček
Dorothée Gilbert
Hervé Moreau


(Details to be announced)

http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/topics/orchard/

[Ailey]

Quelqu'un aurait-il un billet à vendre pour le World Ballet Festival, soit pour le 13 soit pour le 14 août (Programme B)? Je l'achèterais avec grand plaisir!

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Ailey

[mizuko]

Je vais copier votre message sur le forum japonais, Ailey

[haydn]

Plus spécialement à destination de nos amis japonais, mais il y a aussi une traduction anglaise :

The interview of Evan McKie by Mizuko is now available on the site (in Japanese and in English), illustrated with some pictures kindly provided by Evan McKie :


2012年6月20日 ： エヴァン・マッキー　インタビュー


June 20th. 2012 : meeting Evan McKie

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Un petit "j'aime" sur la page Facebook de Dansomanie : http://www.facebook.com/Dansomanie/

[mizuko]

Comme le World Ballet Festival s'approche, NBS lance la série vidéo spéciale. Enjoy

1. Tamara Rojo dans Don Quichotte avec le Tokyo Ballet 2006
http://youtu.be/O8EW5NZvdWI

2. Steven McRae dans Don Quichotte Divertissement de Alina Cojocaru Dream Project (en février dernier)
http://youtu.be/LxBYpvBZTDA

[mizuko]

Concerning Bubenicek New Year Gala - Canon -, some more info came out. Above all, Yannick Bittencourt will be joining this gala. Also Jiri Bubenicek is creating a new piece Prelude and Fugue for Dorothée Gilbert and Hervé Moreau.


Bubenicek New Year Gala - Canon -

5 (19:00), 6 (15:00), 7 (19:00) January 2013
Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo

with
Jiří Bubeníček
Otto Bubeníček
Dorothée Gilbert
Hervé Moreau
Yannick Bittencourt

Programme (all Bubenicek programme):

Le Souffle de l'Esprit
Toccata
Faun
Prelude and Fugue
The Picture of Dorian Gray


http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/topics/orchard/

http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/index.html

[mizuko]

Some images of Nina Ananiashvili and Georgia Ballet currently touring Japan in a Japanese cable TV programme featuring Georgia.

Part 1. http://youtu.be/RZUiBTOcz0w (Nina is dancing Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, partnered by Denys Matviyenko.)
Part 2. http://youtu.be/jRxQ_ltQIiA (Sagalobeli, Nina's charming interview (answering in English) and Odette in the later half of the video)

[mizuko]

Enfin, le Dance Cube rédige un rapport, avec plusieurs photos, sur le spectacle de Don Quichotte (Fabrice Bourgeois) de Arima Ballet avec Karl Paquette, Héloïse Bourdon et Cyril Atanasoff en mai dernier.

http://www.chacott-jp.com/magazine/world-report/from-osaka/osaka1207a.html



photo: Hidemi Seto

[mizuko]

A bit late from twitter, here's the link to Evan McKie's interview by NBS about guesting with the Tokyo Ballet in Onegin in september.

http://youtu.be/fdyXNYX_its