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Japanese beginners in dancing and world ballet stars got united by the Petersburg, my love! performance, the Kultura TV channel reports. World-famous representatives of the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky theaters and other Russian ballet troupes performed alongside young dancers from Japan, who came to Russia for an internship. A trip to St. Petersburg was an award to the winners of the Japan Ballet Competition, which is held annually. The right to go to study with Russian teachers get only twenty Japanese dancers.
For ten days, young talents from Japan work on their ballet skills and practice with perseverance, diligence and great desire. The internship ended with a performance with the stars of the Mariinsky Theater Oksana Skorik and Konstantin Zverev. Many of the Japanese students dream of coming to St. Petersburg again in the future to continue their education at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
It was Russian teachers who laid the foundation for classical dance in Japan. It is believed that the training of Japanese ballet dancers began in the twenties of the last century, after the country was fascinated by the art of the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.
Although the list of famous Japanese dancers is great, the career of most of them is taking shape abroad. There is no state ballet school in Japan.
Russkiy Mir
