Nae Nishimura
In 2019, Nae Nishimura made her debut in the role of Gamzatti in Makarova's La Bayadère after dancing the role of one of the Three Shades in The Kingdom of the Shades. She has danced Fokine's solo Dying Swan, the role of Myrtha in the second act of Giselle, Waltz of the Flowers in Boyadjiev’s The Nutcracker, the bridesmaid solo in Nureyev’s Don Quixote, soloist couple in Ekman's Cacti and pas de trois in Holmes’ Swan Lake.
She performed in the Norwegian premiere of McGregor’s Chroma and has also danced in Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Kylián’s One of a Kind, Tiger Lily, Falling Angels and No More Play, Scarlett’s Vespertine and Carmen, in addition to Balanchine’s Serenade, Agon and Theme and Variations. Parts were created especially for her in Johannessen’s The Rite of Spring, Strømgren’s Hunger, Boyadjiev’s Fair Enough and Hough’s Bout of the Imperfect Pearl.
Japanese Nishimura joined the Norwegian National Ballet in the autumn of 2016 after having worked with the Theater Ballet Dortmund. She was three years old when she began dancing in her hometown of Osaka. At the age of 15, she travelled to study at the Australian Ballet School, where she danced with the Australian Ballet as a student. In 2010, she won the Australian Ballet School’s scholarship award. That same year, she was a finalist in the Youth American Grand Prix in Japan and i 2015, won the Bajazzo Dance Award in Dortmund.
Performances
Selection of previous acts
- 5 Solo Damer in Portner/Kylian/Balanchine
- Blomstervals par in The Nutcracker
- Bout of the Imperfect Pearl in Baroque Movement
- Cacti in Ekman / Haagenrud / Kylián
- Cacti Soli Par in Ekman / Haagenrud / Kylián
- Chroma in A Night of Dance x 12
- Damer in MATS EK
- Damer in MATS EK …
- Den Gode Fe in Cinderella
- Den Gode Fe in Cinderella
- Dronningen in Sleeping Beauty
- Fair Enough in Norwegian National Ballet in the open air
- Gamzatti in La Bayadère
- Gamzatti in La Bayadère
- Giselle 2. akt - Myrtha in Norwegian National Ballet in the open air
- Giselle: Myrtha in Lyset på Nasjonalballetten
- Guvernante in Sleeping Beauty
- Medvirkende in Alan Lucien Øyen: Nothing Personal
- Mengke in Diamonds: León & Lightfoot/Balanchine
- Myrtha in Giselle
- One of a kind in Kylián: One of A Kind
- Rosa kostyme in MATS EK: She Was Black + A Sort Of
- Schubert in Diamonds: León & Lightfoot/Balanchine
- Solist dame in Balanchine: Jewels
- Solistpar damer in Balanchine: Jewels
- Suite in A Night of Dance x 12
- Vespertine in Baroque Movement