Ballet Asteras
What is "Ballet Asteras" ?
Ballet Asteras has been annually staged since 2009 with our hope to support Japanese ballet dancers who are mainly performing outside of Japan.
"Asteras" comes from Latin term "stella" and ancient Greek term "aster", both meaning "stars". We wish our Ballet Gala will be the first step for upcoming dancers to becoming stars in the future.
The number of Japanese participants has grown over the years, who danced either with a foreign or Japanese dance partners. Almost all of them are soloists or principals in their own company. Students of NNT Ballet School have gained special experience by performing with dancers whose career is based overseas and students of the world's most prominent ballet schools such as Vaganova Ballet Academy and Accademia Teatro alla Scala, by joining them on stage in "Ballet Asteras".
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
BALLET ASTERAS 2024
～Inviting Japanese dancers from Overseas, to connect the Japanese Ballet to the World～
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Date and Time:
Saturday, 3RD August 2024, 14:00
Sunday, 4TH August 2024, 14:00
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Place:OPERA PALACE at the New National Theatre, Tokyo
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Committee:
ADACHI Etsuko (Tokyo City Ballet)
OKAMOTO Katsuko (The Inoue Ballet Foundation)
OGURA Sachiko (NNT Ballet School)
OYAMA Kumi (Star Dancers Ballet)
KOBAYASHI Noriko (Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre)
HOMURA Makio (Homura Tomoi Ballet Company)
HORIUCHI Jyu (Osaka University of Arts)
MITANI Kyozo (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
VIDEO
ARCHIVE
2024
Alina COJOCARU (Hamburg Ballet) & YOSHIYAMA Charles-Louis (Ballet Zurich)
KONDO Ako & Chengwu GUO (The Australian Ballet)
SUZUKI Rieka & SUMITOMO Takuya (Croatian National Theatre)
TAMAI Yukino (Poznan Opera Ballet) & KITAI Ryota (Polish National Ballet)
TSUNAKI Ayaha & Joseph GRAY (Dresden Semperoper Ballett)
MASUMOTO Yuka & ARIMIZU Shunsuke (Finnish National Ballet)
Miruna MICIU & YOSHIDA Simon (Croatian National Theatre)
YOSHIDA Neneka (Queensland Ballet) & Joel WOELLNER (Ballet Zurich)
SHIBAYAMA Saho & IZAWA Shun (The National Ballet of Japan)
Korea National University of Arts
Students of New National Theatre Ballet School
2023
YOSHIYAMA Charles-Louis (Ballet Zurich)
IGARASHI Airi & Sergio MASERO (Atlanta Ballet)
KARIYA Madoka & Paxton RICKETTS (Nederlands Dans Theater 1)
KURIHARA Yu & Miles GILLIVER (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
GOTO Ayami & MIYAKE Takumi (American Ballet Theatre Studio Company)
Jessica XUAN & YAMADA Sho (Dutch National Ballet)
MIZUTANI Miki & Lachlan MONAGHAN (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
YOSHIDA Neneka & Joel WOELLNER (Queensland Ballet)
KIMURA Yuri & NAKAYA Masahiro (The National Ballet of Japan)
Students of Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Students of New National Theatre Ballet School
2022
HIRATA Momoko (Birmingham Royal Ballet) & HIRANO Ryoichi (The Royal Ballet)
SASSA Haruka (Royal Swedish Ballet) & Andrea MARINO (Bayerisches Staatsballett)
ISHIZAKI Futaba & Damian TORIO (Ballett am Rhein)
OKUNO Rin & Robert ENACHE (Bucharest National Opera)
OKUMURA Aya & Alexandre CAGNAT (Staatsballett Berlin)
KARIYA Madoka & Luca-Andrea TESSARINI (Nederlands Dans Theater 1)
Jessica McCANN & NAKANO Yoshiaki (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
MOUSSEIGNE Clara (Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris) & ACRI Luca (The Royal Ballet)
IKEDA Risako & WATANABE Takafumi (The National Ballet of Japan)
Students of New National Theatre Ballet School
2021
OKUBO Saya (Former dancer of Dutch National Ballet) & MORIMOTO Ryosuke (Hungarian National Ballet)
KAMINAKA Yuki (Former dancer of Slovak National Theatre) with SHIOTANI Ayana (Star Dancers Ballet)
HASHIMOTO Arisa (Kazakh State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after Abay) & WASHIO Karin (Kyoto Ballet Company / Former dancer of State Ballet of Georgia)
FUKUDA Yuka & ARAKI Motoya (The Musical Theatre of the Republic of Karelia)
MIZUI Shunsuke (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo/ Former dancer of Polish National Ballet) with AOYAMA Kika (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
SHIBAYAMA Saho & WATANABE Takafumi (National Ballet of Japan)
Students of NNT Ballet School (29 Aug.)
2020
2019
- ISHIZAKI Futaba & Dávid MOLNÁR (Hungarian National Ballet)
- EBIHARA Yuka & Kristóf SZABÓ (Polish National Ballet)
- KAGEYAMA Mai & Marco ESPOSITO (Polish National Ballet)
- KIKUCHI Momoka & Pablo OCTÁVIO(Badisches Staats Theater Karlsruhe Ballett)
- TAKAMORI Miyu & MORIMOTO Ryosuke(Hungarian National Ballet)
- NAOTSUKA Miho & Alisher KALIBAY (The Moscow Music Theatre)
- NAGAI Ayaka & Robert ENACHE(Sibiu Ballet Theater & Opera National Bucharest)
- MIYAZAKI Tamako & TAKIGUCHI Masanori (Washington Ballet)
- YOKOYAMA Ruika & Diego BUTTIGLIONE (State Ballet of Georgia)
- YONEZAWA Yui & WATANABE Takafumi and others (National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of Canada's National Ballet School
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2018
- TAKADA Akane & HIRANO Ryoichi (The Royal Ballet)
- AIZAWA Yumi & Vladimir IPPOLITOV (Ballet of Grand Théâtre de Genève) (Geneva Dance Events)
- ACRI Luca & Mayara MAGRI (The Royal Ballet)
- ISEDA Yuka & Edgar CHAN (Pennsylvania Ballet) (Freelance)
- OGASAWARA Yuki & Ruslan SAVDENOV (Ballet du Capitole)
- CHINO Marc & Stanislava POSTNOVA (The Bolshoi Ballet)
- MIZUTANI Miki & Tzu-Chao CHOU (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
- MIYATA Ayami & Joseph TAYLOR (Nothern Ballet)
- YONEZAWA Yui & OKUMURA Kosuke(National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of La Scala Theatre Ballet School
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2017
- KAGEYAMA Mai & Dawid TRZENSIMIECH (Polish National Ballet)
- KAMIKUSA Yoshiko & Luzemberg SANTANA (Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
- KANNO Marina & Rishat IULBARISOV (Berlin State Ballet)
- KUWABARA Mana & KANAZASHI Jotaro (Russian Krasnoyarsk theatre Opera and Ballet)
- TAKANO Yonen (State Ballet of Georgia)
- TERADA Midori & OKAWA Koya (Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre)
- NAKASHIMA Asami & OMAKI Yuya (Slovene National Theatre Maribor)
- IKEDA Risako & IZAWA Shun (National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of Vaganova Ballet Academy
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2016
- ARAI Yoshihisa & Anais BUENO (Joffrey Ballet)
- ISHIHARA Koto & Vitor LUIZ (San Francisco Ballet)
- URABE Kurimu & MACHIYAMA Takashi (National Academic Bolshoi Theatre Republic of Belarus)
- EBIHARA Yuka & Dawid TRZENSIMIECH (Polish National Ballet)
- KOIKE Saori & Motuzov EGOR (Kremlin Ballet)
- SUZUKI Rieka & Tamás Kristóf DARAI (Croatian National Theatre & Theater Augsburg)
- MIYAZAKI Tamako & Andile NDLOVU (Washington Ballet)
- ABE Mao, MINAMOTO Saori (Inoue Ballet) & NAKANOME Tomoaki (Ballett Am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg)
- OKADA Ayumi & OMORI Yasumasa (NBA Ballet)
- KIMURA Yuri & WATANABE Takafumi (National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2015
- OKUNO Rin & Robert ENACHE (Bucharest National Opera)
- KANNO Marina & Wei WANG (Berlin State Ballet)
- KONO Mai & James LYTTLE (Bavarian State Ballet in Munich)
- TAKUDA Sayaka (Russian Ballet Moscow) & KIYOTAKI Chiharu (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
- HIDAKA Sena & YOSHIDA Shuhei (Bucharest National Opera)
- FOGARTY Miko (Indiana Ballet Conservatory) & Noah LONG (Former member of The National Ballet of Canada)
- UEYAMA Haruna & TSUKAMOTO Shiro (Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet)
- SAITO Yo (Tani Momoko Ballet) & MIKI Yuma (Tani Momoko Ballet)
- HAYASHI Yurie & KINOSHITA Yoshito (Star Dancers Ballet)
- KIMURA Yuri & IZAWA Shun (National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2014
- ICHIKAWA Rie & Altankhuyag DOUGARAA (Boston Ballet)
- KAJIYA Yuriko & Jared MATTHEWS (American Ballet Theatre)
- KONDO Ako (Australian Ballet) & CHENGWU Guo (Australian Ballet)
- NAOTSUKA Miho (Saint Petersburg Ballet Theatre) & TAKAYA Ryo (Grand Theater Łódź)
- NEMOTO Shumpei & Patricia VÁZQUEZ (Cullberg Ballet)
- HASHIMOTO Kiyoka & KIMOTO Masayu (Wiener Staatsballet)
- YONEYAMA Mika & OKUDA Taketomo(Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux)
- ORIYAMA Mariko & NAKAYA Masahiro (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
- SHIGA Ikue & KIM Sejong (Tokyo City Ballet)
- SHIMAZOE Akiko & TOMIKAWA Naoki (Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre)
- YONEZAWA Yui & SUGANO Hideo(National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2013
- EBIHARA Yuka & Vladimir YAROSHENKO (Polish National Ballet)
- OGASAWARA Yuki & Claudio CANGIALOSI (Semperoper Ballet)
- O' NEILL Hannah & Florent MELAC (Ballet de l' Opéra national de Paris)
- KARASAWA Hideko & Kendall G. BRITT Jr. (Ballet Memphis)
- SAKUMA Nao & CAO Chi (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
- Takahashi Erina & Arionel Vargas (English National Ballet)
- TERADA Midori & OKAWA Koya (Odessa National Academic Theatre Opera and Ballet)
- Students of Kazakhstan Republic State Almaty Choreographic School named after A.V. Seleznev
- TERADA Asako & OKUMURA Kosuke (National Ballet of Japan)
- HORIGUCHI Jun & KAIKAWA Tetsuo (National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2012
- KANNO Marina & Rainer KRENSTETTER (Berlin State Ballet)
- SAKUMA Nao (Birmingham Royal Ballet) & ATSUJI Yasuo (National Ballet of Japan)
- SUGANO Mayo (Diablo Ballet) & Rory HOHENSTEIN (Joffrey Ballet)
- TAKAHASHI Erina & Zdenek KONVALINA (English National Ballet)
- TAKITA Shinobu (Kiev National Ballet)
- FUJII Miho, Yannick BITTENCOURT & Grégory DOMINIAK (Ballet de l' Opéra national de Paris)
- Students of San Francisco Ballet School
- ITO Yukiko & NAKAYA Masahiro (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
- ONO Ayako & YAHATA Akimitsu (National Ballet of Japan)
- MOTOJIMA Miwa & Maylen TLEUBAEV (National Ballet of Japan)
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2010
- SAKUMA Nao & ATSUJI Yasuo (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
- KAJIYA Yuriko & Jared MATTHEWS (American Ballet Theatre)
- KANNO Marina & Rainer KRENSTETTER (Berlin State Ballet)
- KURANAGA Misa & James WHITESIDE (Boston Ballet)
- TAMAI Rui (Wiener Staatsballet) & Evgeniy LAGUNOV (Kiev National Ballet)
- TOGAWA Arika & Oleg KLYMYUK (Semperoper Ballett Dresden)
- TOMIMURA Kyoko & FUJINO Nobuo (Hong Kong Ballet)
- FUJII Miho & Yannick BITTENCOURT (Ballet de l' Opéra national de Paris)
- YAMAGUCHI Mayumi (Royal Swedish Ballet)& Remi WöRTMEYER (Dutch National Ballet)
- SAITO Miho & HAGA Nozomu (National Ballet of Japan)
- ONO Ayako (National Ballet of Japan) & KIYOTAKI Chiharu (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
- Students of NNT Ballet School
2009
- ASAMI Hiroko & Oleg KLYMYUK (Semperoper Ballett Dresden)
- SUGANO Mayo (Diablo Ballet) & Casey HERD (Dutch National Ballet)
- TERAYAMA Harumi with Jubal BATTISTE (Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet)
- NAGASAKI Mako with LÜ Méng (Liaoning Ballet of China)
- HARIYAMA Emi with Wieslaw DUDEK (Berlin State Ballet)
- YASUKAWA Chiaki & Eddy TOVAR (Orlando Ballet)
- IWATA Yukiko (Iwata Ballet) & IWATA Morihiro (Bolshoi Ballet)
- ITO Yukiko & KYOTO Yuichiro (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
- MOTOJIMA Miwa (National Ballet of Japan) & Lkhagvasuren OTGONNYAM (Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo)
- Students of NNT Ballet School