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It is very curious to see how the Royal Ballet dancers will perform Pite’s The Statement, as it was such an intense and mind-blowing experience to see it performed by Netherlands Dans Theatre when they toured Japan 2 years ago.

Norwegian National Ballet is streaming Balanchine's Serenade, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Bournonville program from May 14 for 2 weeks. https://operaen.no/en/Productions/balanchine-bournonville-ballet/

New York City Ballet's Twitter

METAMORPHOSIS by David Dawson (full ballet) - Dutch National Ballet (a world premiere) is currently available.

Mariinsky Ballet streamed Swan Lake act 2 with Lopatkina and Ivanchenko. They will stream the 3ed act on May 7th. Czech National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty by Marcia Haydee is available in full till May 5th.

National Ballet of Japan’s Coppelia by Roland Petit streaming dates are announced. They will live stream all 4 casts. The streaming is free of charge but no archives will be provided. https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/productions/ballet/free-live-stream-coppelia.html Dates: May 2nd, 4th, 5th and 8th at 14:00 JST. (US EAST COAST TIME 1:00am I guess) an online booklet and link to the stream will be provided later, and they will stream on their YouTube channel and Facebook. CAST 2 May 14:00 Swanilda: YONEZAWA Yui Franz: IZAWA Shun Coppelius: NAKAJIMA Syunya 4 May 14:00 Swanilda: KIMURA Yuri Franz: FUKUOKA Yudai Coppelius: YAMAMOTO Ryuji 5 May 14:00 Swanilda: IKEDA Risako Franz: OKUMURA Kosuke Coppelius: NAKAJIMA Syunya 8 May 14:00 Swanilda: ONO Ayako Franz: WATANABE Takafumi Coppelius: YAMAMOTO Ryuji I will recommend the first cast on May 2nd but other casts will be good as well.

Japan has declared a state of emergency for the 3rd time in major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo. Therefore, almost all performances were cancelled within a day's notice. There was a family ballet festival called Ueno no Mori Ballet Holiday scheduled next weekend but sadly this was cancelled, so the festival went online and there are several offerings provided. https://balletholiday.com/2021/online/ such as Tokyo Ballet's Giselle (excerpt) Asami Maki Ballet's Paquita https://vimeo.com/537602119 Asami Maki Ballet's Raymonda act 3 https://vimeo.com/537602119 Inoue Ballet's Nutcracker in full https://vimeo.com/537595463 Also National Ballet of Japan's Coppelia by Roland Petit performances were cancelled, but they are planning to have a streaming of the performance without audience for free, so I will add information later.

Marco Goecke’s Do you Love Gershwin by Gauthier Dance will be live-streamed this evening (19:30 European time) and archive will be available for a week. http://www.theaterwinterthur.ch/spielplan/detail/tstueck/livestream-gauthier-dance.html trailer

NBA Ballet's CInderella, choreographed by Johan Kobborg, Akane Takada of Royal Ballet in the title role. This work premiered in February this year, and initially Francesca Hayward was supposed to be in the title role but because of travel restrictions, she was replaced by Takada. Not the full length but a 29minutes long highlights.

For instance, Meaghan Grace Hinkis https://www.instagram.com/p/CNxfj9iAf8x/ Ratmansky's post. https://www.facebook.com/alexei.ratmansky/posts/10218867542944432

Navirella is based on a Korean comic and the comic itself is fabulous, it makes me cry reading each episode. Gradually the reason why this 70 year old man is starting ballet at this age is revealed. (it will be a spoiler so I won't write but some readers might assume) The message of this story is so wonderful that you can still be beautiful by practicing ballet even if you are not going to be professional or are old or having handicaps. It is curious that most of the family members are not supportive of this man, so this story is something like a Billy Elliot old man version.

English National Ballet has commented very early. Misty Copeland was one of the first to comment. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNv9RgcDWB5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link and a lot of dancers from Royal Ballet has paid tribute, as well as Manuel Legris (on his instagram story) Scarlett was from the class of 2005 at Royal Ballet school that has many talents, such as Xander Parish, Joseph Caley, Thomas Foster, Alexander Jones, William Moore, Aaron Robison.

Czech National Ballet’s world premiere Puppet by Douglas Lee is available till March 24th. Another work Dos Soles Solos by Alejandro Cerrudo is coming up on the 26th. Trailer.

Royal Swedish Ballet's Three Preludes (Ben Stevenson) and Suite en Blanc (Serge Lifar) available till April 17th. https://www.operanplay.se/en/performances/ballet/

A documentary on Makhar Vaziev "Five years and three days with Makhar Vaziev" on Bolshoi's official YouTune channel with English subtitles. A review of this program. https://www.ilona-landgraf.com/2021/03/leaders-and-followers/

Marco Goecke's The Lover (based on Marguerite Duras's novel) a new work for Staatsballett Hannover is available for free till March 27th. https://staatstheater-hannover.de/de_DE/mediathek-staatsballett

Kaho Ogawa, former corps de ballet has announced she passed the entrance exam to a medical university in Tokyo to become a medical doctor. Great achievement after only a year and half after leaving ABT. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMEFFmEg8gW/?igshid=1d18bp4f072ce

At least Paris Opéra Ballet is sending tributes so I think sadly it is real (please correct my spelling mistakes, he is Patrick Dupond)

Patrick Dupond, former Etoile and artistic director of Paris Opéra Ballet has passed away following an illness. He was 61. How sad for a brightest star at his time. https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2021/03/05/patrick-dupond-ancien-danseur-etoile-de-l-opera-de-paris-est-mort_6072102_3382.html https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/le-danseur-patrick-dupond-est-decede-a-61-ans-des-suites-d-une-maladie-foudroyante-20210305

National Ballet of Japan, under the directorship of Miyako Yoshida has announced their new Season. Although there were some cancellations and program changes, they are now back on stage from the beginning of the current season and have just successfully performed 4 performances of Sleeping Beauty. https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/ballet-dance/202122-season-ballet-dance.html Swan Lake [New Production]　(Peter Wright) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Wayne Eagling) New Year Ballet The Dream <New Production>　(Ashton) Theme and Variations (Balanchine) Miyako Yoshida's Selection - The Greatest Ballets The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude <New Production> (William Forsythe) 5 Tango's <New Production> (Hans van Manen) Grand Café from La Chouve-souris, Ballet　（Roland Petit） Cinderella (Ashton) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland© (Christopher WHEELDON） Ballet for Children RYUGUU - The Turtle Princess　(Kaiji Moriyama) Educational Programme Vol.1Welcome to the Cinderella Castle Dance to the Future　（a program consisted of new works choreographed by the company dancers) Hope the whole season could be delivered without any cancellations. Some of the programs were resumed from cancellations of the previous and current season. They are expecting guest dancers from Royal Ballet and Australian Ballet for Alice.

National Ballet of Ukraine (Kyiv Ballet) The Snow Queen full performance is available. Gerda：Tetiana Lozova Kai：Mykyta Sukhorukov The Snow Queen：Olga Skrypchenko Mistress of the magical garden：Liudmyla Melnyk Magic kingdom Crow：Olga Kifyak Raven：Dmytro Chebotar Princess：Oksana Sira Prince：Andrii Gavryshkiv Bandit：Kateryna Didenko Vitalii Netrunenko Conductor：Oleksii Baklan National Opera Theatre of Ukraine Orchestra

National Ballet of Japan’s documentary “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King-Behind the scenes” a 78 min long video is available for free, with English subtitles. Foreword from Miyako Yoshida, interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage, documentary of how the company managed to have 9 performances of Nutcracker under the Covid-19 pandemic. https://vimeo.com/503423287

Stuttgart Ballet's Romeo and Juliet is available till March 16th on Arte. https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/080539-000-A/romeo-and-juliet/

Zurich Ballet's Winterreise by Christian Spuck is available till May 14th. https://www.opernhaus.ch/digital/corona-spielplan/die-winterreise/

Polish National Ballet will stream Part 3 of their gala performance on February 6th 19:00 (Europe time) https://teatrwielki.pl/en/repertoire/calendar/2020-2021/polish-national-ballet-new-years-gala-part-3/ It will be available for 14 days, and the previously streamed Part 1 and 2 will also return for 11 days on February 7th.