Norwegian Critics' Award 2004/05

Fredrik Rütter said the following, among other things, in his award ceremony speech on behalf of Norwegian Critics' Association:

"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."

Source:

Norwegian Critics'Association, kritikerlaget.no, 29.09.2011, http://www.kritikerlaget.no/pages/nor/169-maiko_nishino_mottok_dansekritikerprisen

Jan H. Landro said the following, among other things, in his award ceremony speech on behalf of Norwegian Critics' Association:

"As an actor today's award winner has loyally bent for the instructor's demanding concept to contribute to a theatrical experience we have barely seen the like of at Norwegian stages.

He has not just documented his familiarity with a form that for most Norwegian actors must seem unknown and desperately different; at the same time he has taken the liberty to play with this form in a way strengthening the whole without in any disturbing way promoting the actor for himself. Virtuously and secure in form, but also richly nuancing he manages to give life to the very classic character of Norwegian theatre and drama history."

Source:

Norwegian Critics' Association, kritikerlaget.no, 29.09.2011, http://www.kritikerlaget.no/pages/nor/170-henrik_rafaelsen_mottok_aarets_teaterkritikerpris