American Ballet Theatre's Manon in Tokyo

Por Naomi Mori, 02 marzo 2014

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Crítica hecha desde Tokyo Bunka Kaikan: Main Hall, Tokyo el 27 febrero 2014

Manon (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

American Ballet Theatre

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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