Miyako Yoshida, who retired from The Royal Ballet last year after a 25-year career at the top of the ballet world, is now bringing the grace that she has become world-famous for home to her native ...

Royal Ballet dancer Miyako Yoshida has announced her retirement after 14 years of dancing with the company. The guest principal will dance in the forthcoming productions of The Nutcracker and ...

The Royal Ballet’s guest principal Miyako Yoshida has announced she will retire from the company at the end of this season. The much-admired dancer will appear in her scheduled performances of The ...

KUN0068 4 GEN 0323 KUWAIT /KUNA-LPM9 CUL-UNESCO-JAPAN-BALLERINA Japanese ballerina Miyako Yoshida named UNESCO artist for peace PARIS, July 7 (KUNA) -- Japanese ballerina Miyako Yoshida will be ...

This week the company’s principal artist finally will make her capital city debut as Giselle when the production opens at Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Yoshida will dance the title role of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a country where top ballet dancers are treated like rock stars. Hundreds of fans line up at the stage ...

She’s one of the most enduringly popular figures of classical ballet: Giselle, the deceived young peasant girl with a pure heart. The role of Giselle was one of the most defining ones for Miyako ...

The role has inspired the world’s best ballerinas and her story is as popular as ever – whether revived, reimagined or deconstructed. Dancers explain the appeal of Giselle ‘I thought I looked too ...

JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/AFP The National Ballet of Japan makes its debut at the London Royal Opera House on Thursday, pirouetting into a void left when Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was cancelled over the war in ...