Maiko Nishino
Maiko Nishino is a ballet dancer, born in Osaka in Japan.
She has been an employee of The Norwegian National Ballet from 1999, from 2005 as a soloist.
Maiko Nishino studied ballet with Sachiyo Hashimoto and Hans Meister prior to starting her studies at The Royal Ballet School in London in 1996.
Information
(Objekt ID 9287)| Object type | Person |
| Functions | Dancer |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Gender | Female |
Maiko Nishino won The Norwegian Critics' Award (dance) 2004/2005 for her role as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake.
"Even at her young age the award winner of the year has had to take a number of serious decisions related to her choice of profession, choices leading her to Norway and The Norwegian National Ballet. Her meeting with classical ballet at the age of then was fateful.
Kenneth Macmillan's Romeo & Juliet, danced by The Royal Ballet, hit her in the heart. She says that from that moment on she was willing to quit basketball and everything else she was doing, just to be able to dance the ballet. The award winner was born in Osaka in Japan 25 years ago."
Sources:
Norwegian Critics'Association, kritikerlaget.no, 29.09.2011, http://www.kritikerlaget.no/pages/nor/169-maiko_nishino_mottok_dansekritikerprisen
Kulturspeilet, www.pluto.no, 20.11.2013, http://www.pluto.no/kulturspeilet/faste/dno/svanesjoen05.html
The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, www.operaen.no, 20.11.2013, http://www.operaen.no/Om-DNOB/Nasjonalballetten/Maiko-Nishino/