Naomi M

The former costumes of Royal Ballet's Cinderella has been sold to National Ballet of Japan where it is very popular and performed almost every year. So the dancers here wear the costumes with the names of Sylvie Guillem, Miyako Yoshida, Alina Cojocaru and Darcey Bussel. 

https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/ballet/cinderella/ 

ienna State Ballet will live stream A Suite of Dances program tonight and it just started.

https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/4cad1ae9-b7c3-4ba5-92ce-91886cbcca05

Robbin's Glass Pieces, A Suite of Dances, The Concert and Balanchine's Duo Concertante. 
 

Program https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/spielplan-tickets/detail/event/985677145-a-suite-of-dances/

the streaming will remain online for 72 hours. 

Here, by English National Ballet.

News that Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty starring Fumi Kaneko and Federico Bonneli will be released as Blu-Ray in Japan in late June.

https://balletchannel.jp/15939

https://www.fairynet.co.jp/SHOP/4560219325746.html

I will post the links to the web shop that will ship overseas as soon as it will become available.

Sarah Lamb is expected to dance in the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo ithis summer. 
https://www.nbs.or.jp/english/news/the-16th-world-ballet-festival-to-be-held-in-august-2021.html

5 hours ago, Jeannette said:

 

 

What a sharp and precise corps de ballet...Soldiers and Ladies of the Town. They’re almost doll-like too.

 

Excellence and precision has been the reputation of this company for a long time. I have happy memories of their Raymonda - Maki Asami version - at the Kennedy Center 10+ years ago. BRAVI! What a treat to have seen this Coppelia live last night!

 

 

 

 

Fabulous that you stayed up so late to see the live stream. Yes the corps de ballet of this company is very good, well rehearsed and today was the final performance so they are getting better day by day. Takafumi Watanabe is not Ayako Ono's regular partner so there might have been a little partnering issues but otherwise a good performance.

Wonderful that you got the chance to see Raymonda at Kennedy Center, I envy you! Raymonda will be their next performance in June so fingers crossed that they can perform with audience this time.  

3 hours ago, Jeannette said:

 

Hi, Naomi. I’ve been watching the final show. It’s intermission time now. Such a different and cute version! Ooh, la, la! (Wouldn’t this be perfect for ABT?)

 

Fabulous principals - Ono’s Swanilda is adorable. Watanabe so strong & sleek as Franz. I can’t wait to see Yamamoto shine as Coppelius in A2...one of the greatest character roles in the repertoire...Roland Petit himself used to dance it. Thanks for alerting us to this fabulous event!!! 👏  Well, time to return to my Virtual Tokyo.

Dear Jeanette,

I am very happy to know you are enjoying the relay. It is a cute but bitter in the end production, and yes it might be nice for ABT. (I remember seeing Coppelia at ABT with Gillian Murphy and Marcelo Gomes about 15 years ago)

Ayako Ono is one of the best ballerinas in Japan and Swanilda is the perfect role for her. Yamamoto is a former principal at the company and used to dance Franz in his prime years but his acting this time is really touching (and sometimes creepy but sophisticated). I also remember seeing Petit himself dance this role with much compassion. Hope you have enjoyed the second half as well! 

Nijisky by Marco Goecke,  Teatro Massimo is currently streaming.

Today is the second streaming of National Ballet of Japan's Petit Coppelia and here are some additional information.

The brochure (synopsis is provided in English as well)

https://c.logosware.com/rtnlpp/PaLJr/cGZp2/html5.html#page=1

Direct link to today's stream 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nOvlZiUqw

Link to May 5th stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINBF3WM0lM

Link to May 8th stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0XAxKqoP4

clip from dress rehearsal 

Mariinsky Ballet streamed the 2nd act of Swan Lake with Lopatkina and Ivanchenko. They will stream the 3rd act on the 7th.(which I posted above)

Lopatikina's legendary Odette is a mesmerizing experience. 

Mariinsky Ballet will stream Swan Lake with Ulyana Lopatkina and Yevgeny Ivanchenko from their back catalogue. 

So saddened to know the passing of  Katherine Barber. Such a passionate, knowledgeable, kind, generous and lovely lady. I met her several times in Tokyo, Toronto and other cities and was looking forward to see her again. Rest in peace. The ballet world is not the same without her.

Opera de Bordeaux will have a celebration of dance on April 29th, and they will stream a performance of La Sylphide from 20:00 European time via their Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/events/opéra-national-de-bordeaux/journée-internationale-de-la-danse-avec-lonb-table-ronde-la-danse-à-bordeaux-dhi/188768783082466/
 

https://www.opera-bordeaux.com/journee-internationale-de-la-danse-avec-le-ballet-17513

National Ballet of Japan’s Coppelia by Roland Petit streaming dates are announced. They will live stream all 4 casts.

The streaming is free of charge but no archives will be provided. 

https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/productions/ballet/free-live-stream-coppelia.html

Dates: May 2nd, 4th, 5th and 8th at 14:00 JST.
(UK TIME 6:00am I guess) 

an online booklet and link to the stream will be provided later, but they will stream on their YouTube channel and Facebook. 

CAST

2 May 14:00
Swanilda: YONEZAWA Yui
Franz: IZAWA Shun
Coppelius: NAKAJIMA Syunya

4 May 14:00
Swanilda: KIMURA Yuri
Franz: FUKUOKA Yudai
Coppelius: YAMAMOTO Ryuji

5 May 14:00
Swanilda: IKEDA Risako
Franz: OKUMURA Kosuke
Coppelius: NAKAJIMA Syunya

8 May 14:00
Swanilda: ONO Ayako
Franz: WATANABE Takafumi
Coppelius: YAMAMOTO Ryuji

I will recommend the first cast on May 2nd but other casts will be good as well. 

Japan has declared a state of emergency for the 3rd time in major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo. This is the result of the corrupt government policies that were unable to secure vaccines, and the increasing number of new valiant infection cases. 

Therefore, almost all performances were cancelled within a day's notice. 

There was a family ballet festival called Ueno no Mori Ballet Holiday scheduled next weekend but sadly this was cancelled, so the festival went online and there are several offerings provided. 

https://balletholiday.com/2021/online/

such as Tokyo Ballet's Giselle (excerpt)

Asami Maki Ballet's Paquita 

https://vimeo.com/537602119

Asami Maki Ballet's Raymonda act 3

https://vimeo.com/537602119

Inoue Ballet's Nutcracker in full

https://vimeo.com/537595463

Also National Ballet of Japan's Coppelia by Roland Petit performances were cancelled, but they are planning to have a streaming of the performance without audience for free, so I will add information later. 

Norwegian National Ballet, Alexander Ekman's A Swan Lake is available free. (till April 30th)

https://operaen.no/digital/a-swan-lake/

Some information about the production.

https://operaen.no/forestillinger/a-swan-lake-hjemme-i-stua/

A vintage recording of New York City Ballet's Apollo in Hamburg 1965.

https://www.ndr.de/orchester_chor/das_neue_werk/Strawinsky-in-Hamburg-Ballett-Apollon-musagete-1965,strawinsky160.html?fbclid=IwAR2gellg_uH09StG9-W5O7NfZWop8gi_SMzxL2dYXBMgi4x28_b2BJnv0gE

Jacque d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Gloria Govrin and Patricia Neary, Karin von Aroldingen

The Korean ballet comic series Navirella is fabulous, I hope this will have an English edition in the near future.  (Japanese edition is available with the first few episodes free online.) 

it is really touching that a 70 year old man is struggling to bring his life long passion to study ballet in spite of all his family opposing to it. 
I can’t wait to watch the drama in Netflix. 

Czech National Ballet’s world premiere Puppet by Douglas Lee is available till March 24th.

Another work Dos Soles Solos by Alejandro Cerrudo is coming up on the 26th. Trailer. 

Paris Opéra Ballet’s official Twitter does confirm this.

Patrick Dupond, former Etoile and artistic director of Paris Opéra Ballet has passed away. He was 61.

https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2021/03/05/patrick-dupond-ancien-danseur-etoile-de-l-opera-de-paris-est-mort_6072102_3382.html

35 minutes ago, Jeannette said:

 

Now I wish to see more choreography by Ms Aniko Rekhviashvili, who apparently has created a lot of good work during the past 30 years, yet the world hardly knows of her (in this “HER-story” “Women’s MOVEment” era). Too conservative for sophisticates? 

 

For starters, she directed the National Ballet of Ukraine since the ouster of Denis Matvienko in 2013, until just recently, when ex-ballerina Olena Filipieva took over.  Interesting bio:

http://www2.opera.com.ua/en/kerivnictvo/staff-177/

 

Anybody who cares about women in positions of power in ballet should care about these people. 

Unfortunately Aniko Rekhviashivili passed away in November 2019 (that's why Elena Filipieva took over the directorship) quite suddenly. But she did create some very interesting and entertaining works such as Vienna Waltz which I had the chance to see. 

55 minutes ago, alison said:

Sounds just my cup of tea, for the most part - now all I need to do is to find some way of moving to Japan and then being able to afford to go to the ballet there  

Please come, as soon as the current COVID-19 situation gets better and the borders open! The theatre has nice sightlines and good acoustic, and the dancers are very good. (and occasionally Vadim Muntagirov guests) Yoshida's leadership is very successful now. 

National Ballet of Japan, under the directorship of Miyako Yoshida has announced their new Season.

https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/ballet-dance/202122-season-ballet-dance.html
 

Swan Lake [New Production]　(Peter Wright)

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King  (Wayne Eagling)est

New Year Ballet
  The Dream <New Production>　(Ashton)
  Theme and Variations (Balanchine)

Yoshida Miyako's Selection - The Greatest Ballets
  The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude <New Production> (William Forsythe)
  5 Tango's <New Production> (Hans van Manen)
  Grand Café from La Chouve-souris, Ballet　（Roland Petit）

Cinderella (Ashton)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland© (Christopher WHEELDON）
 

Ballet for Children  RYUGUU - The Turtle Princess　(Kaiji Moriyama)

Educational Programme Vol.1Welcome to the Cinderella Castle

Hope the whole season could be delivered without any cancellations. Some of the programs were resumed from cancellations of the previous and current season. They are expecting guest dancers from Royal Ballet and Australian Ballet for Alice. 

National OperaTheatre of Ukraine (Kiev Ballet)"The  Snow Queen" full performance is available.

Gerda：Tetiana Lozova

Kai：Mykyta Sukhorukov

The Snow Queen：Olga Skrypchenko

Mistress of the magical garden：Liudmyla Melnyk

Magic kingdom Crow：Olga Kifyak

Raven：Dmytro Chebotar

Princess：Oksana Sira

Prince：Andrii Gavryshkiv

Bandit：Kateryna Didenko Vitalii Netrunenko

Conductor：Oleksii Baklan

National OperaTheatre of Ukraine Orchestra