World Festival of Ballet, Tokyo 2015

[Bruce Wall]

Thanks to BA for this posting .... Some exciting current, former (and in Gouneo's case future) RB & ENB participants ... alongside a considerable troupe of current/past POB personnel and smatterings from other Russian, American and European companies.   Following Friday's Car Man at Sadler's Wells Marcelo Gomes is flying to Tokyo to appear in Programme B.  

 

Program A

 

Tchaikovsky Pas de duex  Iana Salenko and Steven McRae

 

Trois Gnossiennes  Maria Eichwald, Marijn Rademaker

 

The Lady and the Hooligan  Ashley Bouder, Igor Zelensky

 

Black Swan  Tamara Rojo, Alban Lendorf

 

The Farewell Waltz  Isabelle Guerin, Manuel Legris  

 

Other Dances  Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio

 

Manfred  Mathias Heymann

 

Giselle  Sarah Lamb, Vadim Muntagirov

 

Raymonda Act 3 pas de duex   Maria Alexandrova, Vladislav Lantratov

 

Verklungene Feste 　Anna Laudere, Edvin Levazov, Silvia Azzoni, Alexandre Riabko

 

Cinderella  Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg

 

The Old Man and Me  Diana Vishneva, Vladimir Malakhov

 

Flames of Paris  Iana Salenko, Daniil Simkin

 

Swan Lake act 2  Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev

 

Together Alone  Aurelie Dupont, Herve Moreau

 

Onegin Act 1 pas de deux  Alicia Amatriain, Freidemann Vogel

 

Don Quixote  Viengsay Valdes, Osiel Gouneo

 

The gala lasted 4 and a half hours, and this program A will be performed 5 times.  

Edited August 5, 2015 by Bruce Wall

[capybara]

Are you there, Bruce?

 

If so, have you any comment to make? All the online references I can find seem to be about Osiel Gouneo bringing the house down!!!

[Naomi M]

I was the one posted at BA I attended the performance on the first day and will come again tomorrow. It is true that Osiel Gouneo brought the house down with his incredible but very controlled pirouettes, such a great gain for ENB and UK ballet fans. I might add more impressions later. 

 

Meanwhile please enjoy the official curtain call video

 

Edited August 5, 2015 by Naomi M

[sarahw]

4 1/2 hours! Wow.

[John Mallinson]

Here's a tweet with the Program B schedule.

[Bruce Wall]

Thanks so for that, John.  

 

Oh, how I would love to see the Guerin / Legris ... I now assume you won't see it anywhere else ... 

Edited August 9, 2015 by Bruce Wall

[Don Q Fan]

I really wish I had seen this Festival- would love to go one day - the cast is stellar!

[Bruce Wall]

A sampling of Osiel Gouneo's turns in the DQ pas from the closing of Programme A from the WFoB in Tokyo courtesy of ABT principal Danil Simkin.  Even more reasons to look forward to ENB's stunning Le Corsaire in January 2016 in London. 

 

http://www.daniilsimkin.com/video-day-03-at-the-world-ballet-festival-in-tokyo-asere-osiel-gouneo-osielgouneo-still-has-it-14thwbf-a_dancers_life-donttrythisathome-corazoncubano-conmuchogusto/

Edited August 10, 2015 by Bruce Wall

[Naomi M]

Guerin / Legris were just mesmerizing, I think their performance were one of the very best ones at this festival, the only ones that were equally great were Swan Lake by Lopatkina and Korsunstev, No Mans Land by Cojocaru/Kobborg, Sylvia by Azzoni/Riabko. 

 

Guerin and Legris performed the Farewell Waltz by Patrick de Bana at Program A, and it was a touching, beautiful performance seeming to reflect on the lives of the two former Etoiles.  And Program B was Roland Petit's The Bat, Legris could dance like a dancer in his 30's, beautiful crisp turns and swift chaines. Guerin's legs on pointe were so beautiful, unbelievable she had been retired for more than 10 years, you can have a glimpse of her in costume on her lovely Instagram photo with Lopatkina. https://instagram.com/p/6KoM9HC1dS/

Edited August 10, 2015 by Naomi M

[Bruce Wall]

Naomi has kindly posted the Programme B WFoB curtain call video on BA.  Guerin appears to be entirely ageless.  

 

Edited August 11, 2015 by Bruce Wall

[alison]

Guerin / Legris were just mesmerizing, I think their performance were one of the very best ones at this festival, [...]  it was a touching, beautiful performance seeming to reflect on the lives of the two former Etoiles.  And Program B was Roland Petit's The Bat, Legris could dance like a dancer in his 30's, beautiful crisp turns and swift chaines. Guerin's legs on pointe were so beautiful, unbelievable she had been retired for more than 10 years, you can have a glimpse of her in costume on her lovely Instagram photo with Lopatkina. https://instagram.com/p/6KoM9HC1dS/

 

More ammunition for those of us who believe it's shortsighted to impose retirement on dancers at a specified age

[lollylamb1]

Is there any information or news on the 2018 festival, including the dates?

[Naomi M]

All I know about the festival in 2018 is that it will be held August 2018 and nothing more yet. I will post here the details once it will become official.