NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation

HOPE JAPAN 2021
July 2021 Venue: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

Summer Ballet Concert
August 2021 Venue: Meguro Persimmon Hall

My First Ballet Series The Sleeping Beauty
August 2021 Venue: Meguro Persimmon Hall

The 16th World Ballet Festival
August 2021 Venue: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The Tokyo Ballet Le Corsaire
September 2021 Venue: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

The 31th NBS Premium Ballet Series
From March 2021 to March 2022

The 10th NBS Opera Festival
From September 2020 to October 2021

1 Jun 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Gala We are pleased to announce that The World Ballet Festival Gala will be held on Wednesday 25 August, 14:00 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. The program will be announced in the latter half of June. Japan Performing Arts Foundation (NBS) Ticket Prices S=￥33,000 A=￥30,000 B=￥27,000 ...
1 Jun 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival: Artists and Programs We are delighted to announce that Ekaterina Krysanova with The Bolshoi Ballet and Vladimir Shklyarov with the Mariinsky Ballet will participate in the 16th World Ballet Festival to be held in Tokyo in August 2021. It will be their first appearance at the Festival.Iana Salenko has regretfully withdra...
24 Apr 2021	Postponed: The Tokyo Ballet, Don Quixote's Dream, Carmen / Spring and Fall The Tokyo Ballet's Don Quixote's Dream performances scheduled on 29 April and 1 May, and Carmen / Spring and Fall performance scheduled on 2 May are postponed as the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan will be closed in line with the state of emergency announced on 23 April 2021 by the Japanese government. T...
10 Mar 2021	Cancelled: Wiener Staatsoper Japan tour 2021 It is with great regret that we announce the Wiener Staatsoper Japan tour scheduled in October / November 2021 has been cancelled because of unpredictability of restrictions due to the current COVID-19 situation worldwide. Japan Performing Arts Foundation and the Wiener Staatsoper have made o...
18 Feb 2021	The 16th World Ballet Festival to be held in August 2021 We are delighted to announce that the 16th World Ballet Festival will be held from Friday 13 until Sunday 22 August 2021, in Tokyo. When the World Ballet Festival was first introduced in 1976 under the leadership of the late Tadatsugu Sasaki, Founder of Japan Performing Arts Foundation, it wa...
3 Feb 2021	Cancelled: English National Ballet Japan tour 2021 It is with great regret that we announce English National Ballet Japan tour scheduled in June / July 2021 has been cancelled because of unpredictability of restrictions due to the current COVID-19 situation worldwide. Japan Performing Arts Foundation and English National Ballet have made our ...
28 Jan 2021	Cancelled: The Ninth Symphony performances in April / May 2021 It is with great regret that we announce the performances of The Ninth Symphony - choreographed by Maurice Béjart, to be performed by The Tokyo Ballet and the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in April / May 2021 have been cancelled because of the unpredictability of immigration restrictions due to the current...
18 Jan 2021	Ticket Sales Postponed: The Ninth Symphony performances in April / May 2021 Following the state of emergency declared by the Japanese government for Tokyo on 7 January 2021, we have decided to postpone ticket sales for The Ninth Symphony performances which was due to start on Tuesday 19 January 2021, 21:00. The Ninth Symphony is to be performed by The Tokyo Ballet and the B...
14 Dec 2020	Hamburg Ballet Japan Tour in March 2021 Cancelled It is with great regret that we announce the Hamburg Ballet Japan tour in March 2021 has been postponed due to the current COVID-19 situation. As of 14 December 2020, many of the theaters in European countries are forced to close due to the second wave of COVID-19. Japan is struggling with the...
18 Nov 2020	The Tokyo Ballet streams "M" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Yukio Mishima's Death The Tokyo Ballet streams legendary ballet "M" choreographed by Maurice Béjart to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ritual suicide of Japan's most famous postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima. When Maurice Béjart set about choreographing a new ballet for The Tokyo Ballet in 1993, he chose Mishima as ...