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)

By Naomi Mori, 09 June 2022

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

Reviewed at New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo on 3 June 2022

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)

National Ballet of Japan

Nathan Brock, Conductor

Misato Tomita, Conductor

Bob Crowley, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Natasha Katz, Lighting Designer

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Yui Yonezawa, Dancer

Takafumi Watanabe, Dancer

Yoshito Kinoshita, Dancer

Yuko Masuda, Dancer

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

Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Kathy Elgin, 4th July

Ballet Nights is more than an evening of party pieces: it showcases emerging talent alongside older favourites and, in the case of this first Scottish outing, has an eye to local tradition.

****1

ABT in Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale: CliffsNotes Shakespeare

Ivy Lin, 2nd July

Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale is a sumptuous looking production but on this occasion, it didn’t come to life emotionally.

***11

Wheeldon’s Alice: The Royal Ballet shines in a vehicle of excellence

Amanda Jennings, 13th June

Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland shows off The Royal Ballet's roster of supreme dance actors in every version of technical wizardry and comic incarnation.

****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