Child's Play
Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
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There’s a steady unity of vision in Tetsuya Kumakawa’s production of “Cinderella,” first staged by K-Ballet Tokyo in 2012, that finds a delicate balance between the silliness and enchantment that characterizes the fairytale, first popularized for Western audiences in Frederick Ashton’s 1948 version after Rostislav Zakharov’s original for the Bolshoi Ballet on November 21, 1945.
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Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
PlusVous les voyez, les étoiles dans la salle?” the woman next to me whispered as the lights dimmed. And indeed, the stalls glittered with former stars of the Paris Opéra Ballet— dancers I recognised, visibly moved and deep in conversation during the interval.
PlusThere is probably no more beloved ballet, by audiences and dancers alike, than “Romeo and Juliet.”
PlusIn 2017 Virginie Mécène reimagined the lost Martha Graham solo “Ekstatis.” A review from that Martha Graham Dance Company premiere ended with a strong vote of confidence from critic Gia Kourlas: “Ms. Mécène should keep going.”
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