Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Ballet of Japan’s Giselle at the Royal Opera House - Alastair Muir Three years ago, not long after Russia ...

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The National Ballet of Japan will give five performances of its acclaimed production of Giselle by the company's artistic director Miyako Yoshida, who was the first Japanese ballerina ever to be made ...

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Japanese dancer Remi Okamoto has spent her career performing around the globe, dancing on stages from Bulgaria to France. Last August, she added the U.S. to that list when she joined Charlotte ...

He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction. By Alex Williams Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and ...

Japanese ballet dancer Shinji Mitoma, 11, won his age group in the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most famed international ballet competitions for young dancers alongside the Prix de Lausanne, ...

Sahomi Tachibana was a petite woman. She stood at just 4 feet, 9 inches tall. But when she performed, her diminutive size didn’t matter. “Her presence would just fill a stage,” said her daughter, ...

Sono Osato, a Japanese-American dancer who toured the world with the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, performed with the Ballet Theater in New York and then gained acclaim on Broadway in the World War ...

The National Ballet of Japan is in the UK this week at the Royal Opera House in London, the first time in over 15 years that a major Asian dance company has appeared on the venue’s main stage. (AP ...