What's New / 2018, The 15th World Ballet Festival (Aug. 2018): Program A, Program B, Sasaki GALA / NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation

What's New

2018/08/14	The 15th World Ballet Festival Sasaki GALA Program Updates Please see below for updates in the casting and the program of Sasaki GALA. - Myriam Ould-Braham has regretfully withdrawn from Sasaki Gala due to injury. Consequently, Mathias Haymann's partner in Grand Pas Classique will be Dorothée Gilbert. - Due to Cesar C...
2018/07/27	The 15th World Ballet Festival Program Changes Due to injury, it has become necessary to make some changes to Program A and B. We have just learned that Marijn Rademaker has regretfully withdrawn from the Festival due to injury. Consequently, Maria Eichwald's partner will instead be Alexandre Riabko to dance in Program A and ...
2018/07/20	The 15th World Ballet Festival Program Updates and Additional Artist We are pleased to announce that Daniel Proietto from The Norwegian National Ballet will join the festival to perform with Aurélie Dupont a ballet by Alan Lucien Øyen in Program A. At Sasaki GALA, there will be three special performances dedicated to the late Tadatsugu Sasaki, fou...
2018/07/17	Cast Change: Don Quixote on 28 July 2018【The 15th World Ballet Festival】 Cesar Corrales has regretfully withdrawn from his performance as Basilio in Don Quixote at the World ballet Festival on 28 July 2018, due to injury. After discussion with Alina Cojocaru who will dance as Kitri, Leonid Sarafanov will dance as Basilio. * Changes in the cast or the program do not enti...
2018/06/21	The 15th World Ballet Festival Program Announcement of Closing Gala〈Sasaki Gala〉 Sasaki Gala　15 August 2018, 17:00 　 Artists Maria Alexandrova Vladislav Lantratov Laurencia Vakhtang Chabukiani Alicia Amatriain Friedemann Vogel TBA Silvia Azzoni Alexandre Riabko Edvin Revazov Seven Haiku of the Moon - Pas de trois John Neumeier Elisa Badenes TBA Léonore Baulac Germain Louvet Del...
2018/06/07	The 15th World Ballet Festival Closing Gala〈Sasaki Gala〉 The 15th World Ballet Festival will be closed with a gala on Wednesday 15 August 2018. This year, it has been named〈Sasaki Gala〉 in memory of the late Tadatsugu Sasaki, founder of the festival, being the first gala since his passing in 2016. The program will be announced in June 2018. Tickets will b...
2018/05/22	The 15th World Ballet Festival Program Announcement Program A　01-05 August 2018 　 Artists Maria Alexandrova Vladislav Lantratov The Pharao's Daughter Pierre Lacotte Silvia Azzoni Alexandre Riabko Don Juan John Neumeier ...
2018/03/27	Announcement of Additional Artists for 15th World Ballet Festival We are pleased to announce that 3 more artists will join the 15th World Ballet Festival. Alessandra Ferri Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre Olesya Novikova Mariinsky Ballet ...
2018/03/27	15th World Ballet Festival Press Conference Held The 15th World Ballet Festival Press Conference was held on March 5, 2018 in Tokyo by Norio Takahashi, Executive Director of Japan Performing Arts Foundation and Kazuya Kitagawa, Executive Officer, General Manager of Advertising Department of KOSÉ Corporation, the sponsor of the 15th World Ballet Fe...