It
is with great regret that Kimin Kim has had to withdraw from the role of
Basil in The Tokyo Ballet's performances of Don Quixote on Wednesday 19
and Friday 21 November. He has become unable to travel to Japan due to an
injury that he suffered during a performance at the Mariinsky Theatre.
We
have been in discussion with the choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev and
all concerned regarding the replacement casting, and are pleased to
announce that Victor Caixeta, Principal Dancer with the Wiener
Staatsballet, will now dance as Basil with The Tokyo Ballet on 19 and 21
November.
Victor
Caixeta is one of the world-leading dancers of his generation. He joined the
Wiener Staatsballet as Principal Dancer in September 2025 after dancing with
the Mariinsky Ballet and the Het Nationale Ballet. In 2024, he danced as Solor in
La Bayadère with The Tokyo Ballet, opposite Olga Smirnova, at the 17th World
Ballet Festival.
We
apologize to our valued audience members who have been anticipating the
appearance of Kimin Kim, but appreciate everyone's kind understanding. We hope
you will enjoy our performances with Victor Caixeta.
Victor Caixeta
The Brazilian Victor Caixeta started his ballet training
in the social project "Pé de Moleque". Over the next few years, his
teacher prepared him for various ballet competitions. When he participated in
the Prix de Lausanne at the age of fifteen, eighteen prestigious schools
offered him a scholarship. He opted for the State Ballet School Berlin, from
which he graduated in 2017. He then joined the Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre
in St. Petersburg and was promoted to Soloist in 2019. Due to the conflict
between Russia and Ukraine, he left the company in March 2022 and joined Het
Nationale Ballet Amsterdam as a Soloist in the same year, where he was
appointed Principal Dancer. Additionally, he has danced as a guest at the
Teatro dellʼOpera di Roma, Tokyo Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet and at the Primorsky
Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Victor Caixeta joined the Vienna State Ballet as a
Principal Dancer in the 2025/26 season.
His repertoire includes leading roles in the great
classical ballets such as La Bayadère, Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote,
Raymonda, La Sylphide, Romeo and Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty, Le Corsaire and
The Nutcracker as well as works by George Balanchine such as Jewels, Symphony
in C, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Four Temperaments, Victor Gsovsky's
Grand Pas Classique and Uwe Scholz' Sonata. He has also worked with renowned
choreographers such as Alexei Ratmanskv, Twvla Tharp, Sir Wayne McGregor, Hans
van Manen, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Jean-Christophe Maillot and Eric
Gauthier.
In 2017, he received the 1st Prize and the Jury Award at the European Ballet Grand Prix, the 1st Prize at Tanzolymp Berlin and the 3rd Prize at the Moscow International Ballet Competition. In 2015, he was finalist of the Youth American Grand Prix New York.
Victor Caixeta as Solor in La Bayadère at the 17th World Ballet Festival, 2024
photo: Shoko Matsuhashi
Japan Performing Arts Foundation (NBS)
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