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Chiaki Nagao
Principal Artist
This season Chiaki will dance the role
of Erta, an Evolved Being, in A Sleeping Beauty Tale and Queen
Anne in The Three Musketeers
“..her delicacy and emotional
qualities enable her to portray a character who wins our hearts
irrevocably.”(Madame Butterfly) Dance Europe.
Born: Hokkaido, Japan.
Trained: Kushiro Ballet Academy and Central
School of Ballet, London.
Favourite Roles: Marguerite, La Traviata,
Madame Tourvel, Dangerous Liaisons, Juliet, Romeo & Juliet,
Belle, A Christmas Carol, Butterfly, Madame Butterfly, Isabella,
Wuthering Heights, Hippolyta and Helena, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Odette, Swan Lake, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm.
Career Highlights: Nominated for Most Outstanding
Contribution to Dance at the Laurence Olivier Awards 2003
for her performance as Butterfly.
Guest Performances: A summer gala evening
of Dance and Song July 2005, York, Kushiro Ballet Academy,
Hisatomi Ballet Studio, Tokyo Aoyama Ballet Festival Gala,
Dame Beryl’s 75th Birthday Evening Gala, Ballet Central
Gala.
Personal: Hopes one day to make costumes
for performers. Loves cleaning and tidying and is constantly
doing it! Very easily moved to tears. Last summer Chiaki married
NBT’s Deputy Stage Manager Chun-Yen Chia.
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