the performances I saw in 1992 / ballet last night ballet tomorrow night

Jan	7	Tue	the Nutcracker	the Royal Ballet	D.BUSSELL, Z.SOLYMOSI, G.BROADHURST, S.RICE	Royal Opera House	4	Enjoyed Peter Wright production. Bussell was glittering. Rice (Nutcracker Prince) was charming.
Jan	10	Fri	la Legende de Romeo et Juliette	Jean-Claude Gallota, Groupe Emile Dubois	D.SALMIRS, P.GRAVAT	Theatre de la Ville (Paris)	?	Danced by Centre Choregraphique National de Grenoble. Exhaustion made me sleep...
Jan	19	Sun	Swan Lake	Sendai Classic Ballet Conference	HASHIMOTO Sonoko, SATO Ami, ASHIKAWA Kinya	Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan	-	4 local ballet institutes had this performance together. Very young Hashimoto (Odette) danced well.
Jan	29	Wed	All Star Ballet Gala			Shinjuku Bunka Center	3	Ruzimatov in "Diana and Actaeon" was very erergetic. "Legend of Love" by Kunakova touched my heart.
Feb	6	Thu	[Grand Gala] le Palais de Cristal / in the Night / Push Comes to Shove	Ballet de l'Opera de Paris	MAURIN, BELARBI, LEGREE, LORMEAU, PIETRAGALLA, Le RICHE / GAIDA, LEGRIS, PLATEL, Le RICHE, PIETRAGALLA, ROMOLI / PIETRAGALLA, DUPOND, DOISNEAU, MARACHE	Tokyo Bunka Kaikan	4	"le Palais de Cristal" by glittering Etoiles were very gorgeous. The poetic beauty of "In the Night" moved me very much. But I could not understand what in "Push Comes to Shove" pleased audience. Le RICHE (new Premier danseur) dances as if Etoile.
Feb	7	Fri	[Grand Gala] le Palais de Cristal / in the Night / Push Comes to Shove	Ballet de l'Opera de Paris	PLATEL, DUPOND, de VULPIAN, JUDE, LOUDIERES, LEGRIS / LOUDIERES, LORMEAU, ARBO, BELARBI, PIETRAGALLA, ROMOLI / PIETRAGALLA, QUILLERE, ARBO, GAIDA	Tokyo Bunka Kaikan	4
Feb	9	Sun	[Diaghilev] Petrouchka / l'Apres-midi d'un Faune / le Spectre de la Rose / le Sacre du Printemps	Ballet de l'Opera de Paris	MAURIN, LORMEAU, BOSSER / BELARBI, VAYER / LEGRIS, de VULPIAN / LEGREE	Kanagawa Kenmin Hall	3	"Petrouchka" was a little dull for me. About "Faune" I felt Dupont was better than Belarbi. "le Spectre de la Rose" was good. "le Sacre" choreographed by Nijinsky was interesting.
Feb	15	Sat		Teshigawara Saburo Karas	TESHIGAWARA Saburo	Sendai-shi Seinen Bunka Center	2	Internationally famous Teshigawara came to Sendai. But I could not enjoy at all...
Feb	28	Fri		Pappa TARAHUMARA		Sendai-shi Seinen Bunka Center	?	The atmosphere was white and soft. And I fell fast asleep...
Mar	13	Fri	Anna Karenina	Japan Ballet Association	G.KRAPIVINA, I.GALIMULIN, INAMURA Mami, V.MALAKHOV	Tokyo Bunka Kaikan	3	Beautiful and moving ballet. But the ending left me a bad aftertaste. Of course I knew it followd Tolstoi, but...
Mar	14	Sat	Don Quixote	Asami Maki Ballet	SASAKI Sobi, KOJIMA Naoya	U-Port Kan'i Hoken Hall	3	Kojima's debue in Basil impressed me very much. I found many problems but his dance was beautiful and made me very happy.
Mar	15	Sun	Don Quixote	Asami Maki Ballet	NARISAWA Yoshie, Ilgiz GALLIMOULLINE	U-Port Kan'i Hoken Hall	4	GALLIMOULLINE was a perfect Basil. Energy, charm, and brightness of youth ! Narisawa's technic in pas tourne was very good.
Apr	24	Fri	Carmen	Ballet Teatro Espanol de Rafael Aguilar		Izumiti 21	2	Maybe I don't like flamenco...
May	22	Fri	Scenes de Ballet / Winter Dreams / 'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe	the Royal Ballet	BROCKWAY, KUMAKAWA / BUSSEL, MUKHAMEDOV, DOEWLL, TRANAH, DURATE	Tokyo Bunka Kaikan	4	"Winter Dreams" was a ballet based Chekhof's "Three Sisters". I was moved very much. I thought "Penguin Cafe" was a really great ballet !
May	23	Sat	Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Malakhov and Russian Ballet Stars		PLISETSKAYA, MALAKHOV etc.	Fuchu-no-Mori Theater	3	Plisetskaya danced "Isadora" by Bejart. It was a ballet about Isadora Duncan. Malakhov was very beautiful. Galimulin showed he was very suitable for Basil again.
May	24	Sun	the Dream / Tchaikovsky pas de deux / Monotones / Diana and Actaeon / Elite Syncopations	the Royal Ballet	COLLIER, SANSOM / BUSSEL, SOLYMOSI / TAPHOUSE, NUNN, SILVER / DURATE, MUKHAMEDOV / CHADWICK, BUSSEL, SOLYMOSI, PICKFORD	Kanagawa Kenmin Hall	3	"the Dream" was splendid. Beautiful and lovely ballet. Bussel in "Tchaikovsky" was glitterig. "Monotones" and "Elite Syncopations" were not interesting for me.
Jun	15	Mon	el Amor Brujo	Compania de Danza "Flamenco Mario Maya"		Izumiti 21	2	Definitely I don't like flamenco...
Jul	4	Sat	From Lande to Vaganova, etc.	Vaganova Ballet Academy		Showa Women's University Hitomi Memorial Hall	-	Good school performance
Jul	5	Sun	the 9th Japan Ballet Festival			Kanagawa Kenmin Hall	3	Durante/Kukakawa "le Corsaire" was the last of that day. But Durante was in bad condition...
Jul	15	Wed	the Dying Swan, etc.	les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo		Sendai Sunplaza	4	Enjoyed very much.
Jul	26	Sun	Chopiniana, etc.	Vaganova Ballet Academy		Izumiti 21	-	Good school performance
Aug	20	Thu	a clown travels around the world / Donna Gracia	Kato Yuka Ballet Studio	KATO Yuka, Jack HANSEN	Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan	-	A local ballet institute's performance
Aug	24	Mon	Baryshnikov and White Oak Dance Project (Program A)	White Oak Dance Project	Mikhail BARYSHNIKOV	Shinjuku Bunka Center	3	Enjoyed the variety of contemporary dances. I liked "el Penitente" choreographed by Graham.
Aug	25	Tue	Baryshnikov and White Oak Dance Project (Program B)	White Oak Dance Project	Mikhail BARYSHNIKOV	Shinjuku Bunka Center	3	I couldn't understand or accept "Punch and Judy" by David Gordon. In "Ten Suggestions" by Mark Moris, Baryshnikov was very charming.
Sep	12	Sat	Swan Lake	Moscow Classical Ballet	V.TIMASHOVA, I.KORNEEV, A.AKHMETOV (Jester)	Koriyama Shimin Bunka Center	3	Venetian Dance by Narisawa and Malakhov and Benno by Gorbatsevich were fine.
Sep	13	Sun	Swan Lake	Moscow Classical Ballet	L.VASILJEVA, V.MALAKHOV, I.GALIMULLIN (Jester)	Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan	4	Malakhov's Prince Siegfried was very impressive. Beautiful dance and realistic acting! Bravo!!
Sep	18	Fri	Anyuta	the State Perm Ballet	E.MAXIMOVA, V.VASILIEV, O.POSOHKIN	Tokyo Bunka Kaikan	3	Maximova's Anyuta was good. But I had tought I could be moved more. I didn't know what was bad, but...
Sep	19	Sat	Swan Lake	the State Perm Ballet	E.KULAGINA, V.POLESHCHUK	NHK Hall	3	I don't remember my impression. Maybe it was so-so.
Sep	20	Sun	les Sylphides / When Wind Blew / Afternoon of a Faun / Pillar of Fire	Star Dancers Ballet	SATO M, NAGASE N, KOBIRA H, ATSUGI M / ARAI S, NATSUYAMA C / ATSUGI, ENDO Y / OYAMA K, NAGASE, LI Bo	Mielparque Hall	3	"When Wind Blew" was a new ballet by ATSUGI Bonjin. I saw "Afternoon of a Faun" choreographed by Robbins at first time. Oyama danced "Pillar of Fire" very impressively, but I could not like the plot.
Sep	27	Sun	Sylvie Guillem is dancing with.....		GUILLEM, ASYLMURATOVA, BROECKX, BUSTAMANTE, KHALFOUNI, McKERROW, SCHAUFUSS, ZAKLINSKY	Izumiti 21	3	It was a happy surprise that Asylmuratova danced modern ballet very well("Sonata 3 Trois" by Bejart) . Khalfouni danced 2 Petit's ballets. In particular, "le Jeune Homme et la Mort" was very impresive. Guillem's Medora was very beautiful and elegant.
Nov	14	Sat	Farukh Ruzimatov		RUZIMATOV	Green Hall Sagami-Ohno	4	Ruzimatov came to Japan with some dancers of Kirov and Leningrad State (Maly). He danced 2 pas de duex and 2 solos a day. I was very very happy.
Nov	20	Fri	Farukh Ruzimatov		RUZIMATOV	Kose Nenkin Kaikan	4
Dec	8	Tue	Swan Lake	the Leningrad State Ballet	A.KONDRASHOVA, V.ADZHAMOV	Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan	2	Ruzimatov was going to dance with this campany next January. So I checked the whole and became sad...