MARUO TakakoSoloists

MARUO Takako was born in Osaka and after her training at the Fukumoto Shizue Ballet School and Mochizuki Norihiko Ballet Studio, she moved to the Schweizerische Ballet Berufsschule in Switzerland to continue her training. She won first place at the 1991 Chubu Japan Ballet Competition and joined the National Ballet of Japan as a member of Corps de Ballet in the year the Ballet Company was founded. She was then promoted to Coryphée in 2004 and to Soloist in 2008. Takako is an important member of the company whose repertory includes many works ranging from classics to modern pieces.

MARUO Takako

Repertoire with NBJ includes

  • Wayne EAGLING's production: The Sleeping Beauty (Fairy Coulante)
  • Alexei FADEECHEV's production: Don Quixote (Pikilia)
  • MAKI Asami's productions: Swan Lake (Ruskaya, Pas de Trois), The Nutcracker (China), La Bayadère (1st, 2nd & 3rd Variations of Kingdom of the Shades), Raymonda (Clemence, Saracen, Pas de trois)
  • Konstantin SERGYEV's production: The Sleeping Beauty (Silver fairy), Giselle (Peasent pas des deux, Deux willis Monna)
  • Frederick ASHTON: Cinderella (Fairy Spring, Fairy Winter)
  • George BALANCHINE: Symphony in C (4th Movement Principal)
  • David BINTLEY: Aladdin (Silver), Carmina Burana, The Prince of the Pagodas, Take Five (Three to Get Ready)
  • Nacho DUATO: Duende, Por vos Muero
  • HIRAYAMA Motoko: Butterfly
  • Jessica LANG: Escaping the Weight of Darkness
  • Kenneth MACMILLAN: Manon (Courtesans), Romeo and Juliet (Three Harlots)
  • MAKI Asami: La Dame aux Camélias (Csárdás)
  • Roland PETIT: Coppelia (Swanilda's Friends), La Chauve-souris (Czardas)
  • SHIMAZAKI Toru: Feeling is Everywhere
  • Twyla THARP: In the Upper Room ('Stomper')
  • Hans VAN MANEN: Gross Fuge
  • Dominic WALSH: Orfeo ed Euridice (Amore), Wolfgang for Webb