By Naomi Mori The National Ballet of Japan’s commission to British choreographer Will Tuckett, a one-act Shakespearean ballet titled The Tragedy of Macbeth, premiered in April at New National Theatre. The score, by the late Scottish composer Geraldine Mucha, Macbeth, had been created as ballet music but had never been used in a ballet performance.
By Naomi Mori Tokyo City Ballet’s Swan Lake is noteworthy for the stage design by École de Paris painter Léonard Foujita, who created it for the first ever Japanese production of Swan Lake in 1946, for Tokyo Ballet (not the same company that is currently active) when Tokyo was still in the aftermath of World
By Naomi Mori Japan has done quite well since the start of the COVD-19 pandemic, being one of the few countries that continued to have performances with audiences, except for two periods of shutdown due to a State of Emergency. In Tokyo, I have been able to see quite a few shows in 2020 and