KIMURA YuriPrincipal

KIMURA Yuri was born in Chiba prefecture. She trained under IZUMI Keiko, IZUMI Atsuko and MAKI Asami. After training as preparatory student for 2011-2012, she enrolled at the New National Theatre Ballet School in 2013. She participated in the 240th Aniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy International Ballet School Festival and danced MAKI Asami's Triptyque in Grand Kremlin Palace in 2013. She joined the National Ballet of Japan as Soloist in 2015. She made her debut as leading role in MAKI's The Nutcracker and since then has danced leading roles in various productions one after another including Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Giselle, Cinderella and RYUUGUU - The Turtle Princess. Her repertory also includes Gamzatti in La Bayadère, Lescaut's Mistress in MacMillan's Manon, The Queen of Hearts in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She won the 2017 Dance Critic Circle of Japan's New Comer Award. She was promoted to First Soloist in 2019 and was subsequently promoted to Principal in 2022.

KIMURA Yuri

YOSHIDA Miyako's production: Giselle (title role)

Repertoire with NBJ includes

  • Wayne EAGLING's productions: The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, The Lilac Fairy), The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Clara, Arabian)
  • Alexei FADEYECHEV's production: Don Quixote (Kitri, The Queen of the Dryads, A Street Dancer)
  • MAKI Asami's productions: Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, Ruskaya), Raymonda (title role), La Bayadère (Gamzatti)
  • YOSHIDA Miyako's production: Giselle (title role)
  • Peter WRIGHT's production: Swan Lake (Odette / Odile)
  • Frederick ASHTON: Cinderella (title role, Fairy Godmother)
  • Christopher WHEELDON: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Mother / The Queen of Hearts)
  • KAIKAWA Tetsuo's productions: Danae (Original Cast),Story of a Little Mermaid (title role)
  • Peter DARRELL: Tales of Hoffmann (Giulietta, La Stella)
  • George BALANCHINE: Symphony in C (4th Movement Principal)
  • David BINTLEY: Aladdin (Diamond, Rubies, Sapphire), 'Still Life' at the Penguin Café (Utah's Longhorn Ram)
  • Michel FOKINE: Les Sylphides
  • Roland PETIT: Coppélia (Swanilda)
  • Kenneth MACMILLAN: Romeo and Juliet (title role), Manon (Lescaut's Mistress)
  • MORIYAMA Kaiji: RYUUGUU - The Turtle Princess (title role)