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ROYAL BALLET

Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 4, 2019
The Royal Ballet brings the best of British ballet to Japan with its production of 'Don Quixote'
For ballet fans across Japan, The Royal Ballet represents the pinnacle in dance, and its upcoming summer tour of Tokyo and Yokohama from June 21 to 30 keeps expectations high.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Feb 17, 2018
Yoshihisa Arai: Floating on air in Chicago
At rehearsal a week before the debut of the Joffrey Ballet's latest production in Chicago, dancer Yoshihisa Arai sat on the ground in the back of the rehearsal space with his legs in a split, stretching and checking his smartphone.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 11, 2016
Britain's Royal Ballet elevates two Japanese to principal dancers
Britain's Royal Ballet said Friday that two of its Japanese dancers, Ryoichi Hirano and Akane Takada, will be elevated to principal dancers for the 2016-2017 season starting in September.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 24, 2016
The Royal Ballet brings two classic romances set to sparkle afresh
In the competitive melee of world-class dance, the Royal Ballet keeps on its toes. Since 2011, when Christopher Wheeldon's groundbreaking "Alice in Wonderland" became its first new, full-length work in 16 years, the company based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, has been continually pushing new boundaries of innovation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 24, 2015
Guillem bids adieu to her life of dance
Superstar dancer Sylvie Guillem has come full circle.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 24, 2015
Japan's top ballerina recalls times shared with French star
'Sylvie's retirement fills me with deep emotion. She is truly a ballerina who appears only once in 100 years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 28, 2015
Bintley returns with his new-look 'Cinderella'
For dance fans, there's the promise of some glittering Golden Week holiday reunions as David Bintley, long-time director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, returns here with that company for the first time since his four-year stint doubling up as artistic director of the National Ballet of Japan ended last June.
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 25, 2015
Unique exhibition reveals some K-Ballet gems and pure Kumakawa gold
"Looking at my last 15 years' work, I see it as a series of excitements," Tetsuya Kumakawa told The Japan Times.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 19, 2014
ABT brings 'magical moments' to Japan
Last August, with summer sweltering the city, I met Yuriko Kajiya and Jared Matthews, two soloists from the New York-based American Ballet Theatre, one of the word's top-four classical companies along with the Royal Ballet in London, Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi in Moscow.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 25, 2013
Kumakawa blends ballet and business — with panache
Being good at business may be "the most fascinating art," as Andy Warhol said — and few likely know that better than Tetsuya Kumakawa, dancer extraordinaire turned extraordinary businessman.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 13, 2013
An audience with Sylvie Guillem
There are many wonderful ballet dancers the world over, but Sylvie Guillem is undoubtedly in a category of her own — and not only because of her famously self-willed ways.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 4, 2013
'New' Royal Ballet spans the frontiers of dance
For the first time in three years, one of the world's most esteemed ballet companies is bringing its talent to one of the world's most appreciative audiences, as part of a tour that explores the parameters of dance.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage / WEEK 3
Apr 15, 2012
Ballet students poised for giant leap abroad
The moment Birmingham Royal Ballet principal dancer Robert Parker began talking about cartwheels, everything seemed to change.

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