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The performances I saw in 1994
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The title in blue is the performance danced by Farukh RUZIMATOV, the best dancer I have seen. Yellow was danced by my favorite KOJIMA Naoya.
Meaning of letter 5-1
5 very memorable performance for me
4 enjoyed very much
3 enjoyed
2 could not enjoy
1 could not accept !
| Jan | 15 | Hol | Swan Lake | The Leningrad State Ballet | Svetlana SMIRNOVA, Faruhk RUZIMATOV | Kose Nenkin Kaikan | 4 | Does Siegfried know Odile is not Odette? |
| Jan | 20 | Thu | The Sleeping Beautty | The Royal Swedish Ballet | Marie LINDQVIST, Jan-Erik WIKSTROM | Orchard Hall | 3 | It was the first night in their first visit to Japan. So a little nervous? |
| Jan | 21 | Fri | The Nutcracker | The Leningrad State Ballet | Nataliya TCHAPURSKAYA, Kirill MYASNIKOV | Kose Nenkin Kaikan | 3 | Enjoyed a little curious and interesting production. |
| jan | 22 | Sat | Before Nightfall / Miss Julie / Symphony in C | The Royal Swedish Ballet | (Miss Julie) Johanna BJORNSON, Par ISBERG |
Orchard Hall | 3 | "Before..." was beautiful and impressive. "Miss Julie" was different from my image. "In C" was not good. |
| Jan | 23 | Sun | Giselle | Japan Ballet Association | Evelyn HART, Lindsay FISCHER | Tokyo Bunka Kaikan | 5 | Great performance! Hart filled up the theater with love... Fischer was very sincere Albrecht. |
| Mar | 13 | Sun | Don Quixote | Asami Maki Ballet | SHIGA Misae, KOJIMA Naoya | U-Port Kan'i Hoken Hall | 5 | Kojima conquered me. I was convinced that he would be a great danseur noble. Shiga's technic was superb. |
| Mar | 19 | Sat | Othello | Hamburg Ballet | Gamal GOUDA, Gigi HYATT, Ivan LISKA, Anna GRABKAI | Tokyo Bunka Kaikan | 5 | Great work !!! Impressed very very much... |
| Mar | 26 | Sat (M) |
Illusionen wie Schwanensee | Hamburg Ballet | Janus MAZON, Ivan LISKA, Emmanuele BRONCIN | NHK Hall | 5 | It is another great work !!! |
| Mar | 26 | Sat (S) |
Illusionen wie Schwanensee | Hamburg Ballet | Vladimir DEREVIANKO, Ivan LISKA, Gigi HYATT | NHK Hall | 5 | I believe Neumeier is the most important choreographer in the world. |
| May | 5 | Hol | The Nutcracker 2nd act and etc. | Sendai Tachibana Ballet School | Denryoku Hall | - | school performance | |
| Jun | 9 | Thu | the Golden Age | Yuri Grigorovich Ballet | Tatiana LEDOVSKIKH, Ilia GOREV, Alexander MISCHENKO | Orchard Hall | 3 | It was valuable to see one of Grigorovich's famous works. |
| Jun | 10 | Fri | 1994 Farukh Ruzimatov | Farukh
RUZIMATOV Svetlana SMIRNOVA, Margarita KULLIK, Irina CHISTYAKOVA, Lilia MOUSSAVAROVA, Irina KIRSANOVA, TAN Yuanyuan, Natalia STOROZZI Yury PETUKHOV, Serguei VIKHAREV, Aidar AKHMETOV, Aleksandr GORBACEVICH |
Aichi-ken geizyutsu gekizyo | 2 | Maybe Ruzimatov was in bad condition on that day. | |
| Jun | 11 | Sat | 1994 Farukh Ruzimatov | Kanagawa Kenmin Hall | 3 | Good dances today. | ||
| Jun | 14 | Tue | 1994 Farukh Ruzimatov | Izumiti 21 | 3 | Very sad because of too many unoccupied seats in my home town... | ||
| Jun | 15 | Wed | 1994 Farukh Ruzimatov | Iwate Kenmin Kaikan | 3 | Enjoyed very much. A third smaller city than Sendai, but audience full of the hall. | ||
| Jun | 21 | Tue | Sleeping Beauty | Moscow City Ballet | Natalia YAKOVLEVA, Dmitri ROMANOV | Izumiti 21 | 3 | Seeing "Sleeping Beaty" in Sendai is valuable. |
| Jun | 25 | Sat | Nutcracker | Yuri Grigorovich Ballet | Maria MOSINA, Andrei EVDOKIMOV | Izumiti 21 | 3 | The same production as Bolshoi's. But a little different of the end. |
| Jul | 9 | Sat | Yuriko Yokota Modern Dance Part 6 | Yokota Art studio | YOKOTA Yuriko, Omae Masanobu | Sendai-shi Seinen Bunka Center | 3 | Contemporary dances mainly by dancers in Sendai. |
| Jul | 11 | Mon | "Bayaderuka" the Shadows, etc. | Vaganova Ballet Academy | Sendai Sunplaza | - | I could see Vishneva, Dumchenko, Kuznetsov and so on... | |
| Jul | 16 | Sat | Swan Lake | Asami Maki Ballet | KUSAKARI Tamiyo, YAMAMOTO Shigenobu | Shinjuku Bunka Center | 3 | Westmoreland version pleased me. Princesses were in various dresses. |
| Jul | 17 | Sun | Swan Lake | Asami Maki Ballet | OHATA Noriko, KOJIMA Naoya | Shinjuku Bunka Center | 3 | Kojima's first Siegfried was not so bad, not so good. A little too well-behaved. |
| Jul | 24 | Sun | Deep into the Forest etc. | Momie Michiko Modern Ballet Institute | Denryoku Hall | - | School performance | |
Jul |
24 |
Sun | Toriame / Kitunebi no Mori | Moriya Kikuko Modern Dance | MORIYA Kikuko | Sendai-shi Seinen Bunka Center | 3 | Modern dances by dancers in Sendai and Tokyo. Exellent. |
| Jul | 29 | Sat | the 7th World Ballet Festuval (Program A) | Christine
BLANC, Eva EVDOKIMOVA, Alessandra FERRI, Jennifer
GERFAND, Isabelle GUERIN, Sylvie GUILLEM, Evelyn HART,
Marcia HAYDEE, Gigi HYATT, Dominique KHALFOUNI, Monique
LOUDIERES, Amanda McKERROW, Lisa PAVANE, Marie-Claude
PIETRAGALLA Jan BROECKX, Fernando BUJONES, Richard CRAGUN, Patrick DUPOND, Maximiliano GUERRA, Greg HORSMAN, KOBAYASHI juichi, Manuel LEGRIS, Nicolas LE RICHE, Vladimir MALAKHOV, Oliver MATZ, Janusz MAZON, John NEUMEIER, Gil ROMAN |
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan | 3 | Haydee/Neumeier's "the Chairs" by Bejart was most impressive. Enjoyed Roman's "Adagieto", MaKerrow/Malakhov's Tchaikovsky Pas de duex very much. Evdokimova danced Dying Swan. | |
| Jul | 30 | Sun | the 7th World Ballet Festuval (Program A) | Tokyo Bunka Kaikan | 3 | |||
| Aug | 5 | Fri | the 7th World Ballet Festuval (Program B) | Tokyo Bunka Kaikan | 3 | Hyatt/Mazon's "a Cinderella Story", Ferri/Malakhov's "Manon" and Guillem/Matz's "Herman Schmerman" were impressive. | ||
| Aug | 9 | Tue | the 7th World Ballet Festuval (Gala Performance) | Tokyo Bunka Kaikan | 3 | Enjoyed Guerin/Dupond's "Grand Pas" by Tharp and Malakhov's "Voyage" by Zanella very much. Gerfand's technic was amazing. | ||
| Sep | 10 | Sat | Danse Vingt et Un II | Asami Maki Ballet | OMOTO Yasuyo / KOJIMA Shoji | The Globe Tokyo | 2 | MITANI Kyozo produced a charenging dance programm. Maybe not successful... |
| Oct | 8 | Sat | HAZAMA | Dance Comunication Sendai | L-Park Sendai | 2 | Contemporary dance company in Sendai | |
| Oct | 16 | Sun | Openingu Ballet Gala | MORISHITA Yoko, SHIMIZIU Tetsutaro etc. | Sai-no-Kuni Saitama Geizyutsu Gekizyo | 3 | Many dancers gathered and selebrated the opening of a new theater. | |
| Oct | 26 | Wed | Pinocchio | St.Petersburg Ballet Theatre | Shevtsov, Khvoinitsky, Kuzmina, Bichurin | Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan | 2 | Eifman's company. Not so bad but I Could not enjoy so much. |
| Nov | 5 | Sat | Swan Lake | Kirov Ballet | Olga TCHENTCHIKOVA, Makharbek VAZIEV | Kanagawa Kenmin Hall | 4 | I believe Kirov is the best company to dance Swan Lake. |
| Nov | 6 | Sun | Swan Lake | Kirov Ballet | Irma NIORADZE, Alexandre KUYRKOV | Kanagawa Kenmin Hall | 3 | Admired Kutrkov. He is not a star but very exellent dancer. |
| Nov | 12 | Sat | Cinderella | Kirov Ballet | Zhanna AJUPOVA, Stanislav BELIAEVSKHI, Yulia MAKHALINA | Tokyo Bunka Kaikan | 2 | Could not think that Vinogradov's new choreography is good. |
| Nov | 13 | Sun | Paquita / Basho-no-Tsuji Konjaku | Miyagiken Yobu Dantai Rengokai | Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan | 3 | Ballet and modern dance by dancers in Miyagi Prefecture. Modern dance was good. | |
| Nov | 26 | Sat | Swan Lake | Kirov Ballet | Zhanna AJUPOVA, Farukh RUZIMATOV | Festival Hall | 4 | I could see Ruzimatov dances Siegfried with Kirov. It will be a valuable memory. |
| Nov | 27 | Sun | Nutcracker | Kirov Ballet | Zhanna AJUPOVA, Farukh RUZIMATOV | Festival Hall | 4 | Very lovely Masha and passionate Prince. A little too passionate? |
| ?? | 13 | Tue | Nutcracker | Kirov Ballet | Veronika IVANOVA, Stanislav BELIAEVSKHI | Izumiti 21 | 3 | Not so good as Ajupova and Ruzimatov. |
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