NINA IN JAPAN 2004

 

  NINA ANANIASHVILI & STARS OF THE BOLSHOI BALLET TOUR OF JAPAN 2004, FEBRUARY 11-28

 

Nina tours Japan next month with Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet, performing in nine cities. They  will perform a program including excerpts from Acts II and III of Swan Lake, plus two neoclassical ballets--Stanton Welch's Green and Trey McIntyre's Second Before the Ground. See schedule, program and casts. All photos shown herein are by and copyright to Hidemi Seto.

A Bouquet for Nina - an essay on Nina expressly for this 2004 tour.

FLASH! Review from Friends of Nina in Japan of February 11, 2004 Performance in Tama.

A Friend's review of three performances in Tokyo.

As in her 2001 tour, Nina will conduct Master Classes, this time in Tama, Japan:

February 12, 2004 at the Parthenon Tama

Elementary Class: 17:00 - 18:30

Intermediate Class: 19:00 - 20:30

Admission: Free

Contact: Parthenon Tama, Phone - 042-375-1414

Hidemi Seto's photographs of Nina through the years will be exhibited at the FAIRY ballet shop from February 13 to March 2, 2004. Address: FAIRY, 5-50-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Phone:  03-3499-5541
Nina will be at FAIRY for a signing session from 13:00 to 13:40 on Sunday, February 15, 2004.

Souvenirs will be available at the theaters and some ballet shops. Among these are tee-shirts, postcards, tote bags and others for students.

T-SHIRTS

T-Shirts with Nina's sketch which has a hidden "Nina" in Katakana.

T-Shirts with Nina in Don Quixote, Act III

T-Shirts with Nina in Swan Lake, Act III

POSTCARDS

There will be two postcards sets composed of Hidemi Seto pictures of Nina, one from La Fille du Pharaon (with Sergei Filin) and one from Three Preludes (with Andrei Uvarov). All photos are by Hidemi Seto.

La Fille du Pharaon

Three Preludes