Dance firsts are rare: Albrecht nude? Seen it. Swan Lake in the round? Been there. But ballet manga is something new, at least when it involves a real dancer.
What is manga? I hear the balletomanes cry who never venture far from the local opera house. Well, Wikipedia defines it thus:
Manga are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.
Manga, in Japanese, looks like this - 漫画 — and can loosely be translated as ‘whimsical drawings’.
Manga-artist Takafumi Adachi met Royal Ballet Principal Steven McRae last summer, and they were interested to develop something together.… [continue reading]
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