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Kyodo May 20, 2021
London – Japanese dancer Fumi Kaneko has expressed joy over her recent promotion to principal dancer at the U.K. s Royal Ballet, saying it feels like a dream. I am still surprised and it hasn t sunk in, said Kaneko, 29, in an interview Wednesday, after the Royal Ballet announced the previous day her promotion to principal the highest-ranked dancer who often plays a leading role.
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Kyodo, Jiji May 19, 2021
London – The Royal Ballet of Britain said Tuesday that Japanese dancer Fumi Kaneko has been promoted to principal dancer and is set for her first performance with the title in a show later this week.
Principals are the highest-ranked dancers at a company and often play leading roles.
Kaneko, 29, who will appear as a principal in Christopher Wheeldon’s “Within the Golden Hour” on Thursday, has become the first Japanese dancer elevated to the rank at The Royal Ballet since 2016, when Ryoichi Hirano and Akane Takada achieved promotions.
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17-year-old António Casalinho has just won the Prix de Lausanne. It’s one of a surprisingly long list of competitions where he was placed, with wins including the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix and Varna International Ballet Competition. He even won
Got Talent Portugal in 2017. I asked him if the success surprises him.
“Of course, because when I started dancing I never imagined I would get to where I am at this point, winning all these competitions.” So when did you begin to realise that your talent was something special? “I started appreciating that I could actually do something with my talent when I went to the Youth America Grand Prix the first time. It was there that I saw that people liked to see me dance. It was the first time I was in a big competition, and so receiving that prize told me that I had the possibility to become a ballet dancer.”