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...white-robed Shinto priests performed intricate purification ceremonies, a potbellied turboprop transport rolled out of a hangar at Nagoya's Komaki Airport, taxied down a runway and roared aloft. An hour later, when the plane set back down at Komaki, a waiting throng of businessmen and Japanese air force brass broke into exultant banzais. The YS 11, first Japanese-designed commercial transport to be built since World War II, had completed its maiden flight...
...late, swanlike Anna Pavlova, but Nippon stayed off its toes until after World War II. In 1946 the occupation forces blessed a performance of Swan Lake-all four acts of it-staged by a pickup Japanese troupe. It was headed by a tigerish young dancer named Masahide Komaki, who had studied ballet with Russian refugees. The production had a grand total of only 22 dancers (v. 64 for Sadler's Wells' Swan Lake today). Optimistically booked for one week, the show sold out for two; it hit Tokyo on the ballet button...
Fistic Assist. At 37, Dancer Komaki has made his troupe ("Le Ballet Komaki") the largest and best-disciplined in Japan, introduced some two dozen more or less standard Western ballets to the country, e.g., Nutcracker, Coppélia, Petrouchka, Lilac Garden, and himself partnered Visiting Star Nora Kaye...
Last week, while 2,600 spectators chewed on their sembei (rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord. But the dancing was more nearly up to Occidental snuff, with 19-year-old Masako Sunaga and 5 ft. 3 in. Naoto Seki prancing and soaring in nearly flawless technique...
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