Naoko Haga

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title:Dance Researcher
Cheef curator of "Kenji Usui Ballet Collection" (Hyogo Performing Arts Center)
 
The main activity base: Kanagawa-ken
e-mail:chinchilla.@m9.dion.ne.jp
URL:"Kenji Usui Ballet Collection"HP http://www1.gcenter-hyogo.jp/sysfile/center/ballet/index.html

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Profile
Kuwasawa Design Research center - Instructor.
New National Theater Ballet School - Lecturer
Tchaikovsky Memorial Toyota Ballet School - Lecturer
Naoko Haga was born in Tokyo. She studied performing arts at the Meiji University Graduate School of Arts and Letters, specializing in the Ballets Russes and the Ballets Suédois, and received a Masters degree in literature.
Having extensively researched Ballet Russes, a form of early 20th century contemporary dance, she is interested in recent dance trends, as well as ballet. She attends over 200 performances yearly, and continues to be active as a dance critic.
Haga engages in a wide range of other activities as well, including organizing and supervising exhibitions of ballet, writing for a number of publications, from women's magazines and specialty journals to performance programs and exhibition catalogues, primarily on ballet and dance topics. She is an invited lecturer at various institutions throughout Japan, such as the NHK Culture Center and the Asahi Culture Center, is a guest lecturer at Kuwasawa Design School, and also teaches ballet history to students studying ballet.
She is a member of the Japan Society for Archival Science (JSAS), the Japan Inter Design Forum, and the Japan Dance Forum.

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Major Publications
Title / Publisher / Year Published

  • “ICON~legendary figure of Nijinsky~”: Planned for publication by Kodansha, April, 2007.
  • For various publications, Naoko Haga writes ballet/dance-related articles and interviews, such as “The Legacy of the Work of Rolf de Mare” (for Sankei Shinbun), and “Rouault and Lauransan: The Dancers of Paris.” She also writes for performance programs, and contributes her Nihon Ballet-shi (History of Japanese Ballet) to Buyoh Nenkan (Dance Almanac).

Dance-related Activities
Naoko Haga's frame of activity is based in the history of dance and ballet, a field that tends to be forgotten whenever we focus on the present, even as it inspires the present. Hoping to encourage and spread an actual knowledge of and deeper interest in ballet and dance, Haga is pouring her energy into the organization and realization of ballet- and dance-related exhibition and lecture events.
At the same time, Haga also has hopes that there will be some development in the organizations and budgets that support such activities so that young researchers focused on historical concerns may continue their work.
Prospects for Japanese Contemporary Dance
Naoko Haga is looking forward to witnessing the emergence of companies and individual artists whose appeal is not limited to within Japan. She hopes that good relations continue to develop with regional governments and lead to environments in which dance is recognized as an occupation.