Ryota Kitai

First Soloist

Born:

Shizuoka, Japan

Education:

  • Shimura Ballet School, Asaka, Japan<br/>• Tanz Akademie Zürich, Switzerland (2016 - 2019)

Important teachers:

  • Akos Sebestyen, Oliver Matz, Roberta Martins, Udo Kersten, Masahiro Shimura, Yuko Shimura

Engagements:

  • Polish National Ballet, Warsaw, from 2019 as Dancer, Coryphée in 2020, Soloist in 2022
  • First Soloist in 2023

Awards:

  • 2024: Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Award for the best male classical dancer in Poland

Gallery

Repertory

  • With the Polish National Ballet

    • Soloist in Infra (Wayne McGregor)
    • General in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Mechanic in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Soloist in the Waltz of Flowers in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Lanquedem in Le Corsaire (trad. / Manuel Legris)
    • Hungarian Officer 3. in Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan)
    • Harnaś in Bieguni-Harnasie (Izadora Weiss)
    • Nutcracker in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Conrad in Le Corsaire (trad. / Manuel Legris)
    • Male Vampire 1. in Dracula (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Count Dracula in Dracula (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Caliban in The Tempest (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Espada in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev)
    • Duet 1 in Moving Rooms (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Duke Albrecht of Silesia in Giselle (trad. / Maina Gielgud)
    • Basilio in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev)
    • Leading couple in Eroica Variations (creation, Ted Brandsen)
    • Leading soloist in Seventh Symphony (Toer van Schayk)
    • Golden Idol in La Bayadère (trad. Natalia Makarova)
    • Soloist in Kilar Concerto (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Solor in La Bayadère (trad. Natalia Makarova)
    • Candlewick in Pinocchio (creation, Anna Hop)
    • Pinocchio 3 in Pinocchio (Anna Hop)
    • Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt (Edward Clug)
    • Gaston Rieux in The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)

Awards

    • 2024: Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Award for the best classical dancer in Poland