Mai Kono

2007 Bavarian State Ballet, Munich
2011 Demi-Soloist
2017 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (Soloist)
2023 Promoted First Soloist

Mai Kono danced Principal and solo parts in:

• Olga in Onegin (John Cranko)
• Gulnara in Le Corsaire (Ivan Liska after M.Petipa)
• Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (John Neumeier)
• Olympia in Lady of the Camelias (John Neumeier)
• Princess Florine, Fairy variation in Sleeping Beauty (Ivan Liska after M. Petipa)
• 1st and 2nd Shadow Variation in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after M. Petipa)
• 1st Pas de deux in In the Night (Jerome Robbins)
• Amor, Rocio in Don Quixote (Ray Barra after Marius Petipa)
• 1st Pas de trois in Goldberg Variations (Jerome Robbins)
• Friend of Raymonda in Raymonda (Ray Barra after M.Petipa)
• Claire and Four Little Swans in Illusions, like Swan Lake (John Neumeier)
• Peasant pas de deux in Giselle (Peter Wright)
• Grey girl in Les Biches (Bronislava Nijinska)
• Mazurka, Pas de deux in Les Sylphides (Mikhail Fokine)
• Taglioni in Grand pas de Quatre (Jules Perrot)
• Woman in Love in Le Sacre du Printemps (Mary Wigman)
• Demi-solo in Symphony in C (George Balanchine)
• Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Nacho Duato)
• Voices of Spring (Frederick Ashton)
• Nuage (Jiri Kylian)
• Gods and Dogs (Jiri Kylian)
• Choreartium (Leonid Massine)
• The Song of the Earth (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)
• Birthday Offering (Frederick Ashton)
• Grand pas classique (Victor Grovsky)
• Biped (Merce Cunningham)
• Once Upon an Ever After (Terence Kohler)
• Chloe in Daphnis and Chloe (Terence Kohler)
• Pandora in Helden (Terence Kohler)
• Pas de Trois in Paquita (Alexeï Ratmansky after Marius Petipa)
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Aszure Barton)
• If only I Knew (Wladimir Faccioni)
• Moods (Paul Julius)

1st Prides and Hopes Gala in Tokyo, Japan
Prix de Lausanne gala in Tokyo, Japan
1st Charity gala for Fukushima disaster in Tokyo, Japan
25th anniversary of Bunkakaikan in Tokyo, Japan Asteras ballet Gala in Tokyo Japan
Artistic Ballet gala in Osaka,Japan
Etoileballet Gala in Oslo Norway
Ballet gala with international stars in Munich Germany
Gala De Dansa in Reus Spain
TANZART gala in Gießen Germany
International Grand Gala in Crete Greece
Prix de Lausanne 2007: 2nd Prize Scholarship and Audience Award