Mari Kawanishi

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    born in Tokyo, Japan

    Ballet Education

    1998–2002 Tachibana Ballet School, Tokyo
    2002–2007 Elmhurst School for Dance, London
    2007–2010 The Royal Ballet School, London

    Engagements

    2010 Semperoper Ballett Dresden /// since 2011 Staatsballett Berlin

    Repertory

    Frederick Ashton: Cinderella (Twelve Stars); Peter Wright: The Nutcracker (Snowflake); Sir Kenneth McMillan: Romeo and Juliet; David Dawson: Giselle; William Forsythe: Artifact Suite; George Balanchine: Coppélia (Four jesters), Jewels (Diamonds and Emeralds) and Tarantella; Xenia Wiest: The Running System; Jeroen Verbruggen: Faltz

    Repertory in Berlin

    William Forsythe: Herman Schmerman; Mauro Bigonzetti: Caravaggio; Vladimir Malakhov: La Péri and La Bayadère; John Cranko: Onegin and Romeo and Juliet; Alexei Ratmansky: Namouna; Angelin Preljocaj: The Nights; Itzik Galili: The Open Square; Patrice Bart: Swan Lake; Boris Eifman: Tchaikovsky; Vasily Medvedev and Yuri Burlaka: The Nutcracker; Maurice Béjart: Ring around the Ring; Heinz Spoerli: Peer Gynt; Ohad Naharin: Secus (Duato | Kylián | Naharin); George Balanchine: Jewels (Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds); Jean-Christophe Maillot: Altro Canto (Maillot | Millepied); Hofesh Shechter: The Art of Not Looking Back (Duato | Shechter); Gentian Doda: was bleibt (Doda | Goecke | Duato); Richard Siegal: Oval (Balanchine | Forsythe | Siegal); Sharon Eyal: Half Life (van Dijk | Eyal), STRONG (Ekman | Eyal); William Forsythe: The Second Detail (Balanchine | Forsythe | Siegal), Johnny McMillan: Parliament; David Dawson: Voices (Dawson); Vivian Assal Koohnavard: This Too Shall Pass (LAB_WORKS 2022); Mats Ek: A Sort of…; Christian Spuck: Messa da Requiem, Bovary; Pina Bausch: Das Frühlingsopfer; Sharon Eyal: 2 Chapters Love; William Forsythe: One Flat Thing, reproduced, Blake Works I; Marcos Morau: Overture; Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas;

    Competitions | Awards

    2006 Youth America Grand Prix: Final Scholarship

    Other Achievements

    2010 YAGP 10th Anniversary Gala, Tokyo /// 2010 and 2011 Anaheim International Dance Festival /// 2012 Guest performance in Artedanza Rossana: Sleeping Beauty (Aurora) /// 2012 and 2014 Gala of the Stars in California /// 2013 Gala International Di Danza Livorno

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