Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland dazzles again in Tokyo

Yuri Kimura as the Queen of Hearts in Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Steven McRae (Mad Hatter )and Yuki Kaminaka (March Hare) in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Yui Yonezawa (Alice) and Takafumi Watanabe (Knave of Hearts) in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Yui Yonezawa (Alice) and Kosuke Okumura (White Rabbit) in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Yui Yonezawa (Alice) with the Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Von Naomi Mori, 17 Juni 2025

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“displayed his excellent musicality in his show-stopping tap dance”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo, am 12 Juni 2025

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)

National Ballet of Japan

David Briskin, Musikalische Leitung

Misato Tomita, Musikalische Leitung

Bob Crowley, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Natasha Katz, Licht

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Yui Yonezawa, Tanz

Takafumi Watanabe, Tanz

Steven McRae, Tanz

Yuri Kimura, Tanz

Kosuke Okumura, Tanz

BalletBoyz: Still Pointless at 25 and still making it work!

Maggie Foyer, 13th May

The BalletBoyz present an entertaining programme of old and new works spanning the last 25 years – with stellar performances.

****1

Contemporary escapism at New York City Ballet

Carla Escoda, 1st May

A longtime NYCB fan favorite, Concerto DSCH by Alexei Ratmansky, meets the New York premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Continuum. But the evening belonged to corps dancer Ruby Lister in Edwaard Liang’s Distant Cries.

****1

Atlanta Ballet shines in a mixed contemporary program

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 3rd April

Atlanta Ballet's Golden Hour program featured two world premieres and the Atlanta premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

*****

NYCB: Ratmansky’s The Naked King is not satire, but good fun

Ivy Lin, 7th February

New York City Ballet presents a very entertaining quadruple bill which includes Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work, The Naked King, showing off the company’s comic talents.

****1

Les « Racines » inégales du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris à Bastille

Laurine Mortha, 6th October

Entre une pièce des années 1950 de Balanchine et les deux créations récentes des chorégraphes Mthuthuzeli November et Christopher Wheeldon, le programme mixte néo-classique produit un effet mitigé.

***11

The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Amanda Jennings, 1st October

The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.

****1

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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