Akane Takada

Quick Facts

Full Name	Akane Takada
Occupation	Ballet Dancer
Date Of Birth	Apr 18, 1990(1990-04-18)
Age	34
Birthplace	Katsushika-ku
Country	Japan
Horoscope	Aries

Akane Takada Biography

Akane Takada is one of the most popular and richest Ballet Dancer who was born on April 18, 1990 in Katsushika-ku, Japan. Akane Takada was born 18 April 1990 in Tokyo. She is from the Higashishinkoiwa neighborhood in Katsushika, and began ballet training at the Hiromi Takahashi Ballet Studio in nearby Edogawa at the age of three. When she was twelve years old, a serious knee ligament injury dislocated her patella and interrupted her training for over a year while she physically grew enough to make corrective surgery possible. After winning a scholarship from ballet equipment company Chacott at the National Ballet Association competition, she studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy from 2006 to 2008, initially taking the classes for international dancers, but eventually joining the Russian classes. She won both a scholarship and an Audience Favorite prize at the Prix de Lausanne international ballet competition in 2008.

Writing for the Evening Standard, Emma Byrne described Takada in 2019 as “one of the Royal’s most elegant dancers”. Takada missed the Royal Ballet’s 2019 summer tour of Japan, in which she was scheduled to perform the role of Kitri in the Japanese premiere of Don Quixote, due to injury. In November 2019, during a performance of The Sleeping Beauty, Takada was injured during the first act, and was replaced in the rest of the performance by Yasmine Naghdi.

Takada was promoted to principal dancer in 2016 at the age of 26, which is relatively young for a principal dancer. Vogue Japan named her one of its 2016 Women of the Year. Takada debuted in the lead role in Giselle later that year alongside Thiago Soares, with Clement Crisp of the Financial Times describing her as a “Giselle of subtle power”. Takada paired with Steven McRae to dance the roles of Titania and Oberon in the Frederick Ashton ballet The Dream in 2017, with Judith Mackrell of The Guardian commending the pair for their footwork and their distinctively dark portrayal of the characters. Takada performed in another Wayne McGregor piece, titled Infra, in 2018, but her performance was criticized for lacking emotional power and weight despite its technical quality. Later that year, as Nikiya in a production of La Bayadère, Takada again danced with McRae, drawing praise from Laura Freeman of The Spectator for her “air of otherworldly detachment and exquisite lightness of line” but criticism for an ineffective pairing.

Akane Takada Net Worth

Akane Takada is one of the richest Ballet Dancer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Akane Takada 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Takada joined the Royal Ballet as an apprentice in 2008, then as an artist in

2009. Choreographer Wayne McGregor cast her in his new 2009 ballet Limen. She also performed in a revival of the Frederick Ashton ballet Rhapsody, receiving praise from Sarah Crompton of The Telegraph for her performance as a soloist. Her performance as the Autumn fairy in Cinderella was less well-received, with Zoë Anderson of The Independent noting that “the risky, off-balance quality of the solo has gone missing”. In 2011, she re-injured the same knee that she had injured when she was twelve years old, again interrupting her career. In the 2013 production of Onegin, Takada performed the role of Olga, providing “strong support” to the main dancers.

In 2014, Takada was promoted to first soloist. Writing for dance magazine DanceView, Jane Simpson contrasted Takada’s less exciting performance as Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty to her more assertive performance as Aurora, calling Takada’s dancing “clear and unornamented” and predicting future success. In December of that year, after dancing the role of Kitri in an afternoon performance of Don Quixote, Takada stepped into the lead role that evening as a mid-performance substitute for Natalia Osipova, who had been injured during the first act. Her performance was praised by Zoë Anderson in The Independent, with the critic observing that Takada’s qualities suited “Kitri’s mischievous nature”. As a first soloist Takada also danced the principal role in Frederick Ashton’s The Two Pigeons in 2015.

As of 2020, Takada has been in a relationship with fellow Royal Ballet dancer Benjamin Ella for several years.

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Facts & Trivia

Akane Ranked on the list of most popular Ballet Dancer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Akane Takada celebrates birthday on April 18 of every year.

When did Akane Takada start dancing?

First Soloist & Artist, The Royal Ballet. Akane started dancing aged three after having watched ballet on television and asking her mother if she could try it. Her mother took her to a ballet school in Tokyo where Akane fell in love with ballet. There is no ballet in her background.

Is Natalia Osipova a prima ballerina?

Natalia Osipova
Former groups| Bolshoi Ballet, Mikhailovsky Theatre

How tall is Osipova?

5′ 6″

Where did Marianela Nunez train?

Nuñez was born in Buenos Aires and began dancing at the age of three. When she was six she began training at the Teatro Colón Ballet School , joining the Teatro Colón company aged 14. She took on corps and soloist roles and toured internationally, both with the company and as a guest artist with Maximiliano Guerra.

What is the best ballet company?

• Paris Opera Ballet – The most prestigious ballet company.
• American Ballet Theatre – Best ballet company in America.
• The Royal Ballet.
• The Australian Ballet.
• National Ballet of Canada.
• Bolshoi Ballet.
• Joffrey Ballet.
• Cuban National Ballet (Ballet Nacional de Cuba)