TERADA AsakoFirst Soloist
TERADA Asako was born in Osaka and began her ballet training under SAMEJIMA Yoko in 1998 at the Samejima Ballet Studio. She also trained at the Princess Grace Academy of Dance in Monaco during 2002 before enrolling in the New National Theatre Ballet School in 2003. Asako became a member of Corps de Ballet at the National Ballet of Japan in 2005. She made a debut as the leading role in 2009 in Don Quixote. She was promoted to Soloist in 2010 and to First Soloist in 2013 and performed the leading roles in La Bayadère, Cinderella, The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty and other main roles.
Wayne EAGLING's productions: The Sleeping Beauty (The Lilac Fairy)
Repertoire with NBJ includes
- Wayne EAGLING's productions: The Sleeping Beauty (The Lilac Fairy, Carabosse, Sapphire), The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Spanish, Lead Flowers)
- Alexei FADEYECHEV's production: Don Quixote (Kitri, Street Dancer)
- MAKI Asami's productions: Swan Lake (Pas de trois, Ruskaya), The Nutcracker (Snow Queen, Arabia), La Bayadère (Nikiya, Dance with the Pot, 1st Variation of Kingdom of the Shades), Raymonda (Clemence)
- Konstantin SERGEYEV's production: The Sleeping Beauty (Fairy of Candite), Giselle (Myrtha, Peasent pas des deux)
- Frederick ASHTON: Cinderella (title role, Fairy Winter)
- George BALANCHINE: Serenade, Concerto Barocco (Principal), Apollo (Calliope), Symphony in C (3rd Movement Principal)
- David BINTLEY: Aladdin (Emeralds, Pearls), Sylvia (Jupiter), Take Five (Three to Get Ready), E=mc² (Mass)
- August BOURNONVILLE: La Sylphide (Effie, Leading Sylph)
- Nacho DUATO: Duende
- Michel FOKINE: The Firebird (The Beautiful Tsarevna), Les Sylphides
- HIRAYAMA Motoko: Ag+G
- Kenneth MACMILLAN: Manon (Lescaut's Mistress), Romeo and Juliet (Rosaline, Three Harlots)
- MORIYAMA Kaiji: RYUUGUU - The Turtle Princess (Autumn Queen)
- Roland PETIT: La Chauve-souris (Czardas)
- Twyla THARP: In the Upper Room
- Christopher WHEELDON: DGV: Danse à Grand Vitesse (4th Region Soloist)