Japanese ballet dancers

 Do you know that a Japanese high school student got the first prize in Prix de Lausanne? Prix de Lausanne is an International dance competition for young dancers (from 15 to 18). Many former prize winners of this competition are leading stars with major ballet companies around the world. Miyako Yoshida, Kumakawa Tetuya are very famous Japanese dancers who were former prize winners.
 Miyako Yoshida(1965-) was a Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet. Principal is the highest status of ballet company. She performed Juliet in her last stage. She was very good at girls' role.

 Tetsuya Kumakawa(1972-) was the first Japanese gold prize winner of the Prix de Lausanne. He established his own ballet company called K-ballet company. He also played an active role in The Royal Ballet.


Kumakawa and Yoshida

 Madoka Sugai got the first prize in Prix de Laissane in February 2012. She is 17 years old and a high school student. She have gotten many prizes in Japan. MiyakoYoshida praised her highly(Yoshida was one of judges). She became very famous by this news. I want her to be a great international dancers in the near future.

Ballet was not so famous art several decades ago. But now Japan has many great dancers and a lot of lovers of ballet. It is said that Japanese are not suited to do ballet because our legs and arms are shorter than those of Europeans and Americans. But now Japanese can be great international ballet dancers.
I would like you to be more interested in ballet. Thank you for reading this blog.

(http://photo.news.livedoor.com/detail/35923,
http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2132838681056389201,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyako_Yoshida,
http://mcoppelia.exblog.jp/8148280/)