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

Par Naomi Mori, 17 juin 2025

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

Critique faite à New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo, le 12 juin 2025

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)

National Ballet of Japan

David Briskin, Direction

Misato Tomita, Direction

Bob Crowley, Décors, Costumes

Natasha Katz, Lumières

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Yui Yonezawa, Danse

Takafumi Watanabe, Danse

Steven McRae, Danse

Yuri Kimura, Danse

Kosuke Okumura, Danse

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

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Programme Y

Anne-Laure Faubert, 8th July

A l’occasion de la 13° édition des Etés de la Danse, l'Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater prend ses quartiers à la Seine Musicale.

Un hommage à Pierre Boulez hétéroclite

Laurine Mortha, 5th December

Avec une soirée mixte réunissant les chorégraphies de Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor et Pina Bausch, l’Opéra de Paris rend hommage au compositeur et chef d’orchestre contemporain Pierre Boulez.

****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

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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