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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 ...
4 Nov 2020	Program Change: Hamburg Ballet Japan Tour 2021, Ghost Light Japan Performing Arts Foundation would like to announce that there has been a change in the program of the Hamburg Ballet's Japan tour scheduled in March 2021. After active and thorough discussion with Director and Chief Choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, we have come to...
12 Oct 2020	Hamburg Ballet Japan Tour 2021 The Hamburg Ballet returns to Japan for the first time since 2018. They will bring three programs: Anna Karenina, a ballet inspired by Leo Tolstoy, Bernstein Dances, a ballet revue based on the music and spirit of Leonard Bernstein, and The World of John Neumeier, a gala which was performed in Japan...
12 Oct 2020	Rescheduled Dates for The Ninth Symphony performances in April/May 2021 We are pleased to announce next year's rescheduled dates for The Ninth Symphony performances that were originally scheduled to be performed in April 2020 by The Tokyo Ballet and the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and postponed in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new dates begin on 29 April...