Babel Cherkaoui & Jalet

Von Naomi Mori, 10 September 2014

Laden, bitte warten...

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Tokyu Theatre Orb, Tokyo, am 29 August 2014

Babel (words) (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet)

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Naomi Mori

Naomi is a blogger living in Tokyo and travels frequently to see ballet. She is a law graduate of Waseda University and a former film publicist, film critic and IT business researcher/strategist. She blogs at La Dolce Vita in Japanese. She tweets about ballet as @naomip_86. and takes ballet class regularly

BABEL (words), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet