National Ballet of Japan, Colorado Ballet announce 2025-2026 season

The National Ballet of Japan of the New National Theatre Tokyo and Colorado Ballet announced the 2025-2026 season.

The programmes of the National Ballet of Japan, under artistic direction of my heroine Miyako Yoshida, show a delightful mix of classical ballet and works of front-running choreographers, including a world premiere and two Japan premiere.

The company has commissioned Naoya Homan, an emerging homegrown talent who used to be a company dancer, to create a new work. Japan premieres are Robot, l'amour éternel by Kaori Ito and, Friends of Forsyth.. of course, no ballet company wants to miss the 21st century master William Forsyth partially for commercial reasons. Thus, the season also includes works of other masters, David Dawson and Hans van Manen. How trendy!

Actually, the season opens with Frederick Ashton's Cinderella. Other full-length classicals include Manon, Raymonda by late Asami Maki, Swan Lake, and a reinterpretation of The Nutcracker. And George Balanchine. It almost looks like a ballet encyclopaedia. For full programmes, click here.

Colorado Ballet, Denver, Colorado, the United States, announced the new season on 12th February 2025. It includes Dracula with choreography by Michael Pink and Philip Feeney’s original score, The Nutcracker, The Great Gatsby by Jorden Morris, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Christopher Wheeldon (another 21st century master), and MasterWorks.

MasterWorks is a triple bill of The Rite of Spring by Glen Tetley, the world premiere of a new work by Yoshihisa Arai commissioned by Colorado Ballet, and a third work yet to be announced.

Colorado Ballet will celebrate its 65th anniversary next season.