RB Cinderella reviews ENB Nutcracker reviews BRB Nutcracker reviews

It is the name of new company established mainly by 6 independent male dancers.

The promoters announced officially on their tour schedule in Japan which starts from 5 of May. They will have 20(or some more) performances all over Japan, then tour to Italy, Spain and back to Japan this autumn. They auditioned and hired about 30 dancers of corps de ballets. The official interview will be held end of January.

Here are my view of Christmas Ballet season in London:
I had very good opportunities to visit London again in Christmas time and enjoyed very much to see three different ballet companies to perform within a radious 1mile.

Seeing The Royal Ballet at RFH was uncomfortable for me at first. A few-hour constraction like stage and a see-through curtain made me so sad and I needed some power of Fairy Godmother's wand for myself to pretend being in the Royal Opera House.

Although these poor elements filled with my mind, the performances of Cinderella were very enchanting night after night. I loved Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope who established very gorgeous partnership in Cinderella pdd, Sarah Wildor as life-sized familliar Cinderella perfectly matched with considerate Michael Nunn as Prince and Miyako Yoshida who showed us the perfect Ashton steps without any effort.She did very professional job with Bruce Sansom who was ideal Prince for years to me I never compared one dancer to another when I see the Royal Ballet performance and I just enjoy the differences just like delighting in smelling different fragrance of flowers.

Jonathan Howells was very nimble Jester and 12 attendant fairies were just wonderful (I loved Maria-Nella Nunez very much) Just shame was there were no names of the 12 fairies on cast sheet, they have the right to be appreciated as individual dancer not just as the word of corps de ballets.

ENB's Nutcracker was very clever and full of wonderful ideas. I really enjoyed the production. Christopher Hampson was young and brothely Drosselmeyer against Clara. That was very new impression for me because I felt Drosselmeyer was always very old starange man. Patrick Armand was very perfect dancer as always and all the character in the second act were very vivid, especially Yat Sen Chang in Russian Dance and lovely Chinese Dance.

BRB's Nutcracker was my favourite since I saw this last time in London 4 years ago. The performance of matinee on 24th of December was very good opportunity to get real Christmas feeling. The interior (gorgeous red art deco) of Lyceum Theatre was just perfect match for the set of Act 1 of BRB production. Dancers of BRB were very new for me and they were very stylish but some of the main cast were not suitable for classical ballet production by technically. I found Nao Sakuma was very impressive when she danced Spanish dance in Act 2, and I loved Ambra Vallo for Arabian Dance. Another treat was Royal Ballet Symphonia who led the performance with very classical mood.