新国立バレエ団研修所が、ワシントンのケネディセンターで、"Proteges: The International Ballet Academy Festival" という公演に参加したそうです。オペラ座バレエ学校、ロイヤルバレエスクール、デンマークロイヤルスクール、ダンスシアターオブハーレム・スクールという著名なバレエ学校とともに。
The New National Theatre dancers from Tokyo, new on the international scene, were exceptionally well rehearsed, and their performance of Maki Asami's "Sinfonietta" (to the music of Gounod, a very pleasant neoclassical ballet and a premiere) was so polished and well danced that the group got the most enthusiastic applause of the evening.
Maki Asami's somewhat academic "Sinfonietta" showed off the strong technique of dancers from the New National Theater's training program in Tokyo, with the best performing coming from the two comparatively unfettered lead men and from a tall woman in the corps who knew how to use her height.
こちらでも誉められていましたね。
新国立劇場バレエのダンサーに対する評は以下のとおりです。
"Oh, I love Japanese dancers because they give their whole heart and whole soul to what they do. And they really have desire and love for dance," he said with a smile.