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The Inoue Ballet Foundation is established in 1968 based in Tokyo.
Hirofumi Inoue, founder of the company, danced in Europe in his youth and then came back to Japan with a dream to introduce this wonderful European art form to Japanese people.  
As repertoire, the company has main classical ballet numbers such as “Swan Lake”, “Giselle”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Nutcracker”, “Coppelia”, “Cinderella”, “Pas de Quatre”, “Variations de Serge Lifar” along with a lot of creations.  Notably, we have been keeping a good relationship with Royal Danish Ballet and have been working on its traditional Bournonville technique and performed Bournonville ballets such as “La Sylphide”, “Napoli act 3”, “La Ventana”, “Conservatoire”, “Flower Festival in Genzano” with the collaboration especially with Mr. Frank Andersen, former Artistic Director (1985 ~ 1994 , 2001 ~ 2008 ).  

 

 

Not only performing the ballet numbers, we have been learning the style continuously by inviting Danish instructors. We organized nation-wide Bournonville Summer Seminar 6 times and many workshops, for we recognize that the expansion of this traditional and important ballet technique is our mission.  Bournonville technique is significant in ballet history because through this style, we can see the ballets of Romantic Era.  
Bournonville ballets are often danced in ballet competitions and concerts. Unfortunately, however, the correct style is not always respected by the performers.  Many people learn the ballet by Youtube or other recorded materials, so the precise details are not clear.  
We would like to make a group of Danish instructor, demonstrators and pianist in order that we can make tours to the cities in and out of Tokyo to meet a lot of young students and dancers.  For we believe they need to know that the special style exists and by learning the exercises of Bournonville school, they can improve their skills to dance not only Bournonville Ballets but also other classical numbers.  
We have done this kind of workshops in Utsunomiya, Yokaichi, Sendai and Osaka along with the workshops inside the company for our own dancers.  Recently, the flights cost, transportation fee in Japan and hotels become so expensive, which makes us it very difficult  to continue the activity.  

 

 

We decided to challenge Crowd Funding in order to continue our activity to expand the style. At the same time, we wish that many people know the existence of this wonderful cultural tradition and become interested in ballet itself.  
In this summer, we will invite Ms. Petrusjka Broholm, former soloist and now teacher of Royal Danish Ballet as instructor and will organize the workshops in Inoue Ballet studio and in Kumiko Wakasa Ballet in Matsue, Shimane prefecture as well as open classes for the professional dancers. 

We appreciate your kind interest and support for our activities.  Please help us to succeed this first challenge to the funding.  We shall let you know how we will be doing when we have occasions.   We thank you very much in advance.

 

 

 

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