K-ballet

K-Ballet

General information
Name	K-Ballet
Local name	K-バレエカンパニー
Year founded	1999
Founders	Tetsuya Kumakawa
Website	http://k-ballet.co.jp
Artistic staff
Artistic Director	Tetsuya Kumakawa
Deputy Director	Stuart Cassidy
Ballet Mistress	Mayuko Maeda
Ballet Master	Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Other
Orchestra	Theatre Orchestra of Tokyo
Official school	K-Ballet School

K-ballet is a Japanese ballet company. The company started in 1999 and has since held approximately 50 annual performances. K-Ballet's activity was first recognised internationally in July 2004, when the ballet group was invited to New York's Metropolitan Opera House with The Royal Ballet, one of the World's leading ballet companies.^[1] The honorary president is currently renowned ballet dancer, Sir Anthony Dowell.^[2]

Company Members

There are currently almost 70 dancers and artists involved in K-Ballet's productions. The most notable include Artistic Director Tetsuya Kumakawa, Principal Dancer Yuko Arai and Guest Principal Dancer, Viviana Durante (as of May 2010).^[3]

Principals

Yuko Arai
Shiori Asakawa
Stuart Cassidy
Yasuko Higashino
Tetsuya Kumakawa
Rie Matsuoka
Kenta Shimizu
Kazue Yasumura

Guest Principals

Viviana Durante
Shoko Nakamura

First Soloists

Naoki Hashimoto
Yuri Higuchi
Shuntaro Miyao
Yusuke Osozawa

Soloists

Yoshikazu Asada
Byambaa Batbold
Fuzuki Isaka
Rina Kambe
Ikumi Nakajima
Hayato Nishino
Ayumi Shiraishi
Satomi Soi
Nikolay Vyuzhanin

References

↑ "Company Profile: Tetsuya Kumakawa, Artist Director" (in Japanese). K-ballet Company.
↑ "Company History" (in Japanese). K-ballet Company.
↑ "Company Members" (in Japanese). K-ballet Company.

External links

(Japanese) K-Ballet, official website

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