WAJIMA TakuyaSoloists

WAJIMA Takuya was born in Hokkaido prefecture. He placed second in the junior category at the 1999 Kobe Dance Competition and joined the National Ballet of Canada as a junior member in 2000. In the following year he performed at the London Studio Centre and joined the Stars and Stripes tour. After his career with Tetsuya KUMAKAWA's K-Ballet Company from 2002 where he flourished as Principal in 2008, he joined the National Ballet of Japan as Soloist in the following year.

WAJIMA Takuya

Repertoire with NBJ includes

  • Wayne EAGLING's production: The Sleeping Beauty (King Florestan, Catalabutte)
  • Alexei FADEECHEV's production: Don Quixote (Lorenzo, Gamache)
  • MAKI Asami's productions: Swan Lake (Rothbart, Lead Hungary), The Nutcracker (Arabia), La Bayadère (The High Brahmin)
  • Konstantin SERGYEV's production: Giselle (Hans)
  • Frederick ASHTON: Cinderella (Prince's Friends)
  • George BALANCHINE: Symphony in C (3rd Movement Principal)
  • David BINTLEY: Aladdin (Emeralds), The Prince of the Pagodas (King of the East)
  • Nacho DUATO: Duende
  • Kenneth MACMILLAN: Manon (Gaoler), Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt, Paris)
  • MAKI Asami: La Dame aux camélias (La Comte)
  • OGURA Sachiko: Snow White (Mirror)
  • Roland PETIT: La Chauve-souris (Garçons)
  • Twyla THARP: In the Upper Room ('Ballet Men')
  • Hans VAN MANEN: Gross Fuge