Naomi M Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I am not sure if this gala is really going to happen, but NBS has announced their World Ballet Festival planned for this August. Fingers crossed that the COVID-19 pandemic will end till then. https://www.nbs.or.jp/english/news/the-16th-world-ballet-festival-to-be-held-in-august-2021.html Performance Dates and Venue Program A Friday 13 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Saturday 14 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Sunday 15 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Monday 16 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Program B Thursday 19 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Friday 20 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Saturday 21 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Sunday 22 August 2021, 14:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Participating Artists (as of 18 February 2021) Amandine Albisson, Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris Maria Alexandrova, The Bolshoi Ballet Elisa Badenes, The Stuttgart Ballet Alessandra Ferri, The Royal Ballet / American Ballet Theatre Mathieu Ganio, Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris Dorothée Gilbert, Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris Marcelo Gomes, Semperoper Ballett David Hallberg, The Australian Ballet Mathias Heymann, Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris Kimin Kim, Mariinsky Ballet Sarah Lamb, The Royal Ballet Vladislav Lantratov, The Bolshoi Ballet Hugo Marchand, Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris Vadim Muntagirov, The Royal Ballet Marianela Núñez, The Royal Ballet Hannah O'Neill, Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris Gil Roman, Béjart Ballet Lausanne Daniil Simkin, American Ballet Theatre / Staatsballett Berlin Madoka Sugai, Hamburg Ballet Alexandr Trusch, Hamburg Ballet Diana Vishneva, Mariinsky Ballet Friedemann Vogel, The Stuttgart Ballet * More artists will be announced at a later date. Ticket Prices S=￥27,000 A=￥24,000 B=￥21,000 C=￥17,000 D=￥13,000 E=￥9,000 * Please note that we are to present the performances with the utmost caution in line with national and regional guidelines for novel coronavirus infection prevention measures, and that the performance dates and details are subject to change depending on circumstances. We will be posting on our website a list of novel coronavirus precautions upon attending the performance. Audience members are kindly asked to read it before attending the performance. * Casting as of 18 February 2021 is subject to change. Changes in the cast do not entitle holders to return or exchange tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 As always, great line-up of Stars at the festival. I hope that it comes to pass. I must have blinked and missed Marcelo Gomes’ move to Dresden, as both principal dancer and ballet master. Congratulations to him! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oncnp Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 This is apparently going ahead this Friday with some cast changes. The 16th World Ballet Festival: Program Updates and Cast Changes / / NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation I didn't see anything on the English pages about streaming. Could one of the Forum's Japanese speakers have a look please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yumiko Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 27 minutes ago, oncnp said: This is apparently going ahead this Friday with some cast changes. The 16th World Ballet Festival: Program Updates and Cast Changes / / NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation I didn't see anything on the English pages about streaming. Could one of the Forum's Japanese speakers have a look please? I can’t see any streaming plan on Japanese page, too. Let’s wait. The organiser might be planning it. If it happens, it would be wonderful Edited August 10, 2021 by yumiko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oncnp Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 54 minutes ago, yumiko said: I can’t see any streaming plan on Japanese page, too. Let’s wait. The organiser might be planning it. If it happens, it would be wonderful Thank you for checking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 I don’t think they will stream this performance, the organizer cannot afford such costs and some works have copyright issues. The overseas guests have been quarantined in a bubble and seating is not full which means the organizer has to pay extra costs. The increasing number of COVID-19 cases here, most of them are Delta variant is very serious thanks to the olympics that they should not have took place, and vaccination is not enough here. Anyway I will be going to see the first day of this gala so I will report. But I might return my second ticket because the situation here is really not good and it might be dangerous to visit theatres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Oh Naomi, I'm so sorry to hear that the numbers are rising again in Tokyo. Of course we are currently known as Plague Island and the numbers here to my eyes are frightening - the only glimmer being that double vacc'd people who catch the virus are much less likely to be seriously ill. Please do take care. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Sorry, Naomi and Jan! Here in the Washington DC area, the “masks indoors” mandate is back, courtesy of the Delta variant. My big hope is that the theatres here (& in NYC) reopen in September, as planned. I want to see that curtain rise on the moonlit Serenade on 21 September. I cry just thinking about it...”Curtain up - 21 September...” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted August 16, 2021 Author Share Posted August 16, 2021 World Ballet Festival Program A has ended and the next program B will begin on Thursday. As the number of participating dancers were smaller and Hugo Marchand was unable to arrive in time for Program A the gala was smaller than usual but nevertheless it is impressive to have many star dancers coming to Tokyo where the COVID-19 situation getting more and more serious. You can see some glimpses of the gala through the Instagram story of Daniil Simkin, Vladislav Lantratov, Vladimir Shkryalov, Svetlana Zakharova, especially Mathias Heymann's fabulous leaps from Flower Festival at Genzano (on Simkin's Insgtram story). For me, the highlights was Heymann, Krysanova and Kimin Kim in Corsaire, Smirnova and Shkryalov in Romeo and Juliet, as well as the memorial video of Carla Fracci and Patrick Dupont. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 I wonder, Naomi, have the memorial videos for Carla Fracci and Patrick Dupont been put up on line anywhere? Grateful for your kind advice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted August 18, 2021 Author Share Posted August 18, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Bruce Wall said: I wonder, Naomi, have the memorial videos for Carla Fracci and Patrick Dupont been put up on line anywhere? Grateful for your kind advice. Not at this point, but perhaps it might happen afterwards. The footage were from previous World Ballet Festival performances, La Sylphide for Fracci, and the Jester from Swan Lake, Don Quixote by Dupond, all very fabulous and valuable so I hope this would be put online. Here is a pointe shoe worn by Fracci at the 1976 World Ballet Festival, on display in the foyer. Edited August 18, 2021 by Naomi M typo 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Thanks so, Naomi. You are most kind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted September 5, 2021 Author Share Posted September 5, 2021 According to NBS the organizer's website, they are considering to stream the World Ballet Festival in a fee-based service paid service, although there are some issues to be solved. They say they are planning to make it possible by the end of the year. I did see some video cameras that were filming, but not ones for broadcast quality. But anyway it should be lovely to see the gala online because there were some very superb performances. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonbfisher Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Fingers crossed that this does become available ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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