【Tokyo】NBA Ballet Company "Dracula" Performance Tickets

Dracula" was adapted into a ballet in 1996 by Michael Pink, the current Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Ballet (and Assistant Artistic Director of Northern Ballet Theatre at the time of its production), to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Bram Stoker's "Dracula the Vampire. This blockbuster production brings together a team of leading creators: Philip Feeney for music, David Grill for lighting, and Les Brotherstone, known for his work with Matthew Bourne, for equipment and costumes. Known as a "walking horror show" in the U.S., it has a dedicated repeat audience, with audience members coming to the show in costume.

When it premiered in Japan in 2014, artistic director Yuichi Kubo was awarded the 69th Japan Arts Festival's New Artist Award in the Dance Division. The piece was then performed again in 2021, and this will be the third time in two years.

At the previous performance in 2021, Dracula's neutral and bewitching visuals, sexy vampire, pas de deux (two men dancing together), and gorgeous gothic stage design and costumes attracted the audience's attention and became a big hit.

At the August 5 (Sat.) 13:00 performance, Yasuo Atsuchi, former principal of the Royal Ballet of Birmingham, England,

Ryoichi Hirano, a former principal of the Royal Ballet of Birmingham, England, will be the guest performer at the August 5 (Sat.) 18:00 performance.

Ryoichi Hirano also played the lead role of Dracula in the NBA Ballet's "Dracula" performance in August 2021, and showed his presence with his beautiful and bewitching performance.

Yasuo Atsuchi left the Royal Ballet of Birmingham at the end of February 2022 and is now working as a freelance dancer in Japan, and this will be his first collaboration with the NBA Ballet.