New Year Ballet 2021 - The National Ballet of Japan | New National Theatre, Tokyo
Published 2021-03-16
The whole programme was live-streamed via YouTube and The National Ballet of Japan's Facebook page on the same day.
-PROGRAMME, CAST & STAFF-
Part I
"Paquita"
Music by: Léon MINKUS
Choreography by: Marius PETIPA
Set Designer: KAWAGUCHI Naoji
Costume Designer: OOI Masako
Lighting Designer: TATSUTA Yuji
Performed by: YONEZAWA Yui, WATANABE Takafumi
IKEDA Risako, SHIBAYAMA Saho, HAYAMI Shogo (Pas de Trois)
Part II
"Soirée de Ballet"
Music by: Alexandr GLAZUNOV
Choreography by: FUKAGAWA Hideo
Performed by: IKEDA Risako, NAKAYA Masahiro
"Campanella"
Music by: Franz LISZT "La Campanella"
Choreography: KAIKAWA Tetsuo
Piano: YAMANAKA Atsushi
Performed by: FUKUOKA Yudai
Part III
"‘Still Life' at the Penguin Café"
Music by: Simon JEFFES
Choreography by: David BINTLEY
Set and Costume Designer: Hayden GRIFFIN
Lighting Designer: John B. READ
The Great Auk: HIROSE Aoi
Utah Longhorn Ram: YONEZAWA Yui
Texan Kangaroo Rat: FUKUDA Keigo
Humboldt's Hog-nosed Skunk Flea: SOUTOME Haruka
Southern Cape Zebra: OKUMURA Kosuke
Aboriginal Rainforest family: MOTOJIMA Miwa, KAIKAWA Tetsuo
Brazilian Woolly Monkey: FUKUOKA Yudai
Conductor: TOMITA Misato
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Singer: HIKITA Kaori
About the NNTT
The New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) is Japan’s first and foremost national theatre for the performing arts of opera, ballet, dance and drama. Since the doors of our world-class, state-of-the-art theatre opened in 1997, we have staged an incredible array of productions, totaling more than 700.
About the National Ballet of Japan
The National Ballet of Japan (NBJ), the first resident ballet company in Japan, launched in conjunction with the opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 1997.
The NBJ's repertoire is broad in scope, embracing classics such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker; 20th century works by choreographers such as Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Roland Petit and Kenneth MacMillan; as well as works by contemporary choreographers such as David Bintley, Nacho Duato and Christopher Wheeldon. The NBJ also commissions world-class choreographers to create original pieces for its repertoire.
The NBJ was awarded an Asahi Performing Arts Award in 2004 for its production of Raymonda. The company made its overseas debut in 2008 at the Kennedy Center in the United States, followed by an invitation to the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre in 2009, where it performed La Dame aux Camélias. The NBJ is highly rated internationally both for its much-praised principle dancers and corps de ballet.
Since the beginning of the 2020/2021 season, the Artistic Director is Yoshida Miyako, who was active in the United Kingdom for many years as a principal dancer. With this appointment, the NBJ is setting its sights on ever greater achievements.
All Comments (3)
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Well im the first to comment so. This is just beautiful. Stunning. I admire their endurance and hard training. All to result in a beautiful masterpiece.
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Wonderful.
