NAOTSUKA MihoFirst Soloist

NAOTSUKA Miho was born in Aichi. She won Bronze medal in the New York City Finals at the Youth America Gran Prix in 2009. She went to Russia to study at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2012, and joined the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre as Soloist in 2013. She joined the Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet as coryphee in 2016 and danced Gulnare in Le Corsaire and so on. She transferred to the Moscow Music Theatre in 2018 and she was promoted to Soloist in 2020. She joined the National Ballet of Japan as First Artist in 2022, before being promoted to Soloist in 2023 and First Soloist in 2026. Her repertory includes leading roles in Raymonda and Swan Lake, as well as Gamzatti in La Bayadère, Carabosse and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, David Dawson's A Million Kisses to my Skin, Fairy Summer in Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, William Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and Naoya Homan's String SAGA.

NAOTSUKA Miho

David DAWSON: A Million Kisses to my Skin

Repertoire with NBJ includes

  • Wayne EAGLING's productions: The Sleeping Beauty (Carabosse, Princess Florina)
  • Alexei FADEYECHEV's production: Don Quixote (A Street Dancer, 2nd Variation)
  • MAKI Asami's productions: Raymonda (title role), La Bayadère (Gamzatti)
  • YOSHIDA Miyako's production: Giselle (Peasant pas de deux)
  • Will TUCKETT's production: The Nutcracker (Fondant Rose)
  • Peter WRIGHT's production: Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, Polish Princess)
  • Frederick ASHTON: The Dream (Mustardseed), Fairy Summer (Cinderella)
  • Christopher WHEELDON: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (The Cook)
  • Nacho DUATO: Duende
  • David DAWSON: A Million Kisses to my Skin
  • David BINTLEY: Aladdin (Rubies)
  • William FORSYTHE: The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
  • Roland PETIT: Coppélia (Swanilda's Friends)
  • HOMAN Naoya: String SAGA*
  • Kenneth MACMILLAN: Manon (Courtesan)

    * Created Role / Original Cast