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SWAN LAKE OSAKA, JAPAN MARCH 2003 Reviewer wishes to remain anonymous I do not remember when I felt such happiness last time while I was waiting for the performance My mind kept saying "I would finally see Adam's Swan" and that made me so happy that I felt as if I had no problems in this world. I focused my binocular on top of the prince's bed as soon as the curtain went up. AND THERE HE WAS, A BEAUTIFUL SWAN WITH HIS FLAP OF THE WINGS SLOWLY BUT POWERFULLY. My breathing stopped with such a beautiful scene , and it burnt into my mind. Jesus Pastor and Yasuyuki Shuto are very talented and wonderful dancers, I was very impressed by Yasuyuki Shuto especially, however, I could not escape with my feeling of something was missing in my heart on 20 and 21 March performances. It was obvious that I was missing Adam on these performances but I was able to find out what it was exactly I was missing. Jesus and Yasuyuki were fantastic dancers and they both danced their Swan/Stranger wonderfully but ,they just danced. ADAM WAS SWAN AND STRANGER!!!!! and that makes a whole world different, When Adam dances he takes more spaces in the air than anybody else, he becomes so grand on the stage. Even though his movements are sharp and quick it looks as if his each movement is taking more times than anybody else which makes his movements so graceful. He was so powerful yet so graceful and he certainly dominated the whole theatre and caressed all of us with his wings. I felt I was caressed with his wings all the while I was in the theatre. Such a contentment, such a calm and peaceful contentment I felt. It was blood running excitement at the beginning and settled into a peaceful contentment in my heart, which is still staying with me. |