Misa Kuranaga

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Misa Kuranaga (倉永美沙 Kuranaga Misa, born in Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese ballerina at the Boston Ballet.

1 Career
2 Repertory
3 Galas/Guesting
4 External links

[edit] Career

Started ballet at Jinushi Kaoru Ballet School in 1991.
In 1993, she performed the Black Swan variation at the Bolshoi Theater as a guest artist in the 7th Moscow International Ballet Competition Gala Performance. She had been personally invited to perform by the Bolshoi director, Yuri Grigorovich, who had seen her perform at the Chubu National Ballet Competition. She was the youngest participant to win the gold medal in the junior division.
Went to study at the San Francisco Ballet School and the School of American Ballet after winning the Scholarship Prize at the Prix de Lausanne (International ballet competition in Lausanne) in 2001.
Won the gold medal in the Junior Division of the 9th Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2001. Simultaneously won the "Hope of the World Ballet" prize.
Joined the Boston Ballet in 2003.
Promoted to Second Soloist in 2005.
Awarded the Senior Division gold medal at the USA International Ballet Competition in 2006.
Promoted to First Soloist in 2007.

[edit] Repertory

Her repertory at the Boston Ballet includes Sir Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée (Lise); August Bournonville's La Sylphide (the Sylphide); Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty (Songbird Fairy, Princess Florine, and Jewels), Giselle (Peasant Pas de Deux and Lead Wili), Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, and Raymonda, Act III; Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker (Snow Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy, and Clara) and Swan Lake(Pas de Trois and Black Swan); Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote (Amour/Cupid); James Kudelka's Cinderella; John Cranko's The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet; George Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15, Concerto Barroco, Serenade, Ballo Della Regina, Jewels, Who Cares?, La Valse, Stars and Stripes, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Mark Morris' Up and Down; and Lucinda Childs' Ten Part Suite, as well as other works by Jiri Kylian and Jorma Flo.

[edit] Galas/Guesting

She has danced the following pas de deuxs and works at galas and festivals in Japan, US, and Europe: Flames of Paris, Giselle Act II, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Esmeralda (Tambourine), Diana and Acteon, Black Swan, Paquita (Lead Etoile), Stars and Stripes (Balanchine), Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet (Lavrosky version), La Sylphide Act II, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine), Rose Adagio from The Sleeping Beauty, amongst others.