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Ex-Bolshoi Ballet soloist Iwata performs solo dance

ULAN-UDE, Russia - Morihiro Iwata, artistic director at the Buryat National Academic Opera and Ballet House in the Russian republic of Buryatia, performs a solo dance in Ulan-Ude on Dec. 12, 2014, during a show to commemorate the establishment of his arts foundation to promote local artistic activities. Iwata was a soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Ex-Bolshoi Ballet soloist Iwata founds arts foundation

ULAN-UDE, Russia - People concerned pose before a show in Ulan-Ude in the Russian republic of Buryatia on Dec. 12, 2014, to commemorate the establishment of an arts foundation by Morihiro Iwata, artistic director at the Buryat National Academic Opera and Ballet House, to promote local artistic activities. Iwata was a soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet.

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Ex-Bolshoi Ballet soloist Iwata founds arts foundation

ULAN-UDE, Russia - Morihiro Iwata (front), artistic director at the Buryat National Academic Opera and Ballet House in the Russian republic of Buryatia, greets guests before a show in Ulan-Ude on Dec. 12, 2014, to commemorate the establishment of his arts foundation to promote local artistic activities. Iwata was a soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet.

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1st performance directed by ex-Bolshoi dancer Iwata

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata (R) gives instruction to a dancer at the Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in capital city Ulan-Ude in the Republic of Buryat in East Siberia under the Russian Federation on Nov. 2, 2012. Iwata, who was the only Japanese soloist at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, provided the first ballet performance he directed at the theater the same day.

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1st performance directed by ex-Bolshoi dancer Iwata

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata (L front) examines a rehearsal at the Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in capital city Ulan-Ude in the Republic of Buryat in East Siberia under the Russian Federation on Nov. 2, 2012. Iwata, who was the only Japanese soloist at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, provided the first ballet performance he directed at the theater the same day.

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Iwata gives farewell performance as Bolshoi dancer

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, receives flowers as he and other performers take a curtain call at the company's Moscow theater on July 17, 2012. It was the final performance at the ballet company by the 41-year-old first soloist, who joined the company in 1995.

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Iwata gives farewell performance as Bolshoi dancer

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, gives his farewell performance at the company's Moscow theater on July 17, 2012. The 41-year-old first soloist joined the ballet company in 1995.

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Bolshoi dancer Iwata

TOKYO, Japan - Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2012. Iwata, 41, will retire later in the year.

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Bolshoi soloist Iwata to retire

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at the Bolshoi Theater Ballet.

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Bolshoi soloist Iwata to retire

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata (back), the only Japanese soloist at the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, dances during a charity ballet performance to aid victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, in Moscow in June 2011.

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Bolshoi soloist Iwata

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, dances during a charity ballet performance to aid victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, in Moscow in June 2011.

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Japanese dancer performs at Buryat Theater in Eastern Siberia

Morihiro Iwata, a Japanese ballet dancer and former soloist of the Russian Bolshoi Theater Ballet, performs at the Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Ulan-Ude in Russia's Eastern Siberia on April 29, 2015. Iwata has planned and is to organize the Russo-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship, which will be held at the theater on Sept. 3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Bolshoi Ballet soloist founds fund to aid artistic activities in Siberia

Morihiro Iwata, a former Japanese soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet troupe, talks in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Dec. 11, 2015, about a fund he has set up to support artistic activities in eastern Siberia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bolshoi dancer Iwata

TOKYO, Japan - Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2012. Iwata, 41, will retire later in the year. (Kyodo)

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Bolshoi soloist Iwata to retire

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at the Bolshoi Theater Ballet. (Kyodo)

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Bolshoi soloist Iwata to retire

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata (back), the only Japanese soloist at the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, dances during a charity ballet performance to aid victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, in Moscow in June 2011. (Kyodo)

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Bolshoi soloist Iwata

MOSCOW, Russia - Morihiro Iwata, the only Japanese soloist at the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, dances during a charity ballet performance to aid victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, in Moscow in June 2011. (Kyodo)