Kiev Ballet's Don Quixote in Tokyo

By Naomi Mori, 10 January 2014

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Reviewed at Bunkyo Civic Hall, Tokyo on 8 January 2014

Don Quixote (Viktor Litvinov)

National Ballet of Ukraine

Elena Filipieva, Dancer

Jan Vanya, Dancer

Olga Golitsa, Dancer

Natalia Matsak, Dancer

Denis Nedak, Dancer

Dmitry Chebotar, Dancer

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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