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

Yoshito Kinoshita (The White Rabbit)

Takafumi Watanabe (The Knave of Hearts) and Yui Yonezawa (Alice)

Yuko Masuda (The Queen of Hearts)

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“Yuko Masuda played the role hilariously, with rubber-like facial expressions”

Critique faite à New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo, le 3 juin 2022

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)

National Ballet of Japan

Nathan Brock, Direction

Misato Tomita, Direction

Bob Crowley, Décors, Costumes

Natasha Katz, Lumières

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Yui Yonezawa, Danse

Takafumi Watanabe, Danse

Yoshito Kinoshita, Danse

Yuko Masuda, 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

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

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

Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland dazzles at National Ballet of Japan