K-ballet

K-Ballet

General information
Name	K-Ballet
Local name	K-バレエカンパニー
Year founded	1999
Founders	Tetsuya Kumakawa William Trevitt Michael Nunn
Website	http://k-ballet.co.jp
Artistic staff
Artistic Director	Tetsuya Kumakawa
Deputy Director	Stuart Cassidy
Ballet Mistress	Shiori Asakawa,Ran Yamada
Ballet Master	Hayato Nishino,Rei Sakoh
Other
Orchestra	Theatre Orchestra of Tokyo
Official school	K-Ballet School

K-ballet is a Japanese ballet company. The company started in 1999 and has since held approximately 50 annual performances. K-Ballet's activity was first recognised internationally in July 2004, when the ballet group was invited to New York's Metropolitan Opera House with The Royal Ballet, one of the World's leading ballet companies.^[1] The honorary president is currently renowned ballet dancer, Sir Anthony Dowell.^[2]

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Company members

There are currently almost 70 dancers and artists involved in K-Ballet's productions. The most notable include Artistic Director Tetsuya Kumakawa, Principal Dancer Shohei Horiuchi,and Principal Soloist Dancer Mina Kobayashi (as of June 2022).^[3]

Principals

Shiori Asakawa
Nozomi Iijima
Shoya Ishibashi
Sena Hidaka
Shohei Horiuchi
Masaya Yamamoto

Principal soloists

Mina Kobayashi
Kei Sugino
Saya Narita

First soloists

Mayuka Asano
Yuka Iwai
Ren kuriyama
Kaito Sekino
Risako Toda
shuhei Yoshida
Gregoire Lansier

Soloists

Yoshitomo Okuda
Shu Kurihara
Miho Saeki
Rei Takahashi
Kumiko Tsuzi
Shohei Honda
Natsuki Yamada
Saori Yoshida

References

^ "Company Profile: Tetsuya Kumakawa, Artist Director" (in Japanese). K-ballet Company.
^ "Company History" (in Japanese). K-ballet Company.
^ "Company Members" (in Japanese). K-ballet Company.

External links

(in Japanese) K-Ballet, official website
The boyz are back in town // The Guardian, 21 Jan 2001

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