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By WANG XU | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-05-24 09:05 Share CLOSE
Mikiko Matsuyama, a Japanese ballet dancer and co-founder of Japan s Matsuyama Ballet troupe, died aged 98 on Saturday.
According to Matsuyama Ballet, the artistic director of the troupe died of acute heart failure in Tokyo about 3:40 am.
Born in Kagoshima prefecture in 1923, Matsuyama had devoted her life to ballet and made a great contribution in introducing Chinese culture to Japan.
In 1948 Matsuyama and her husband, Masao Shimizu, founded Matsuyama Ballet, which went on to become a leading ballet troupe in Japan and gain a worldwide reputation. The troupe built up a following in the United States, Europe and China.
What is an everyday ballerina? A luminous new memoir tells all.
Gavin Larsen in Asheville, N.C., May 15, 2021. Larsen has written a memoir, Being a Ballerina, from the perspective of what she calls an everyday, or a blue-collar, ballerina. Clark Hodgin/The New York Times.
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.- Gavin Larsen said she first felt like a writer in 2015 at an artists residency in New Mexico. She was there not as a dancer, but to work on a book about her dancing career. And she was surrounded by musicians, writers and visual artists who didnt know a thing about ballet.
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More than one year has passed since the first lockdown was declared in Philadelphia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected everyone’s life in numerous ways, but one of the hardest-hit fields must be the live art industry. Its nature is to interact with people in the real world, yet they were completely deprived of the means to do so.
Since the lockdown, dance companies around the world have been exploring their way to connect with their audiences. Some dancers published movies they shot in their own house on YouTube. Some companies have made their effort to raise some donations to provide the bare minimum to their dancers and musicians by creating new short content or streaming their past performances. Some tried “the bubble” to perform for online viewing. Some completely shut down and went quiet. Some dancers quietly retired without the last performance and applause that they deserve.
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