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| 01.09.20 |
The launch of Bournonville.com
On September 20th Bournonville.com was launched with a press meeting followed by a reception at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. |
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| 03.04.11 |
Bournonville Festival 2005
On Friday May 9th director of the Royal Danish Ballet, Frank Andersen, presents the program of the 3. Bournonville Festival in June 2005. On the occasion the official festival homepage www.bournonvillefestival.com will be launched, too. |
| 03.04.08 |
Debut in Napoli
On Friday April 11th Principal Gudrun Bojesen makes her debut as Teresina in this season's revival of Napoli. |
| 03.03.20 |
Season 2003-04 at The Royal Danish Ballet
In the upcoming season RDB presents 4 ballets by Bournonville. First a complete new production of La Sylphide staged by principal of New York City Ballet Nikolaj Hübbe and set and costume design by Mikael Melbye. Then there will be a chance to yet again enjoy A Folk Tale and Napoli. And in the spring Bruce Marks and Jens-Jacob Worsaae lavish production of Abdallah, which hasn't been in the repertoire since 1992.
Performance dates:
La Sylphide and Etudes : September 20, 21 & 27 October 2, 3, 4, 7, 16, 22 & 24 2003
La Sylphide and 3. act of Napoli : November 4, 6, 7 & 11 2003
Introduction to La Sylphide: September 7 2003
A Folk Tale : February 12, 14 & 15 March 6, 19, 20 & 24 2004
Napoli : February 25 March 2. 10 & 27 April 16, 22 & 23 2004
Abdallah : May 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 21 & 22 2004
Further information about the repertoire: www.kgl-teater.dk |
| 03.02.18 |
RDB at The Kennedy Center
On March 4th-9th The Royal Danish Ballet performed together with American Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet at the International Ballet Festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. RDB opened the performance with 3rd act of Napoli, and was followed by the Bolshoi Ballet, which presented dance in its own bravura style. The performanced closed with American Ballet Theatre that payed tribute to Jerome Robbins with a re-staging of his first ABT ballet, Fancy Free. |
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| 02.11.12 |
Debuts in The Conservatoire
Principal Thomas Lund makes his debut as an instructor with Bournonville's The Conservatoire in collaboration with Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter.
In The Conservatoire Thomas Lund also makes his debut as the Ballet Master, and principal dancer Rose Gad makes her debut as Victorine, soloist Diana Cuni also as Victorine and Sascha Haugland as Elisa. |
| 02.11.12 |
Bournonville meets competition
November offers a special Ballet evening at the Royal Theatre. Three unique gems, three Danish Masterpieces created by, probably, the three greatest ballet-directors and choreographers in the history of the Royal Ballet: August Bournonville, Harald Lander and Flemming Flindt.
The Conservatoire demonstrates Bournonville's graceful, elegant style. Flemming Flindt's The Lesson follows the dramatic story of a young girl in the hands of an increasingly insane dance teacher. Harald Lander's Etudes is a dazzling display of steps in a classical ballet training session, focusing on one particular ballerina's path to the stage.
It is an evening embracing the daily work in the rehearsal room. Three ballets about the creation of a dancer and presenting scenes from the rehearsal room where no audience usually is allowed. For the first time, these three masterpieces are performed in the same program, and they represent important pinnacles in the development of style in Danish ballet, over the past hundred years.
The Conservatoire, The Lesson and Etudes are performed at Old Stage, November 15. 16. 20. 22. 23. and 27. |
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Sascha Haugland debuts as Hilda
At the matinee on September 4th Sascha Haugland danced for the first time the part of Hilda in A Folk Tale. |
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The Bournonville Award 2002
Caroline Cavallo, principal at the Royal Danish Ballet, has been awarded the Bournonville Award 2002 on the birthday of August Bournonville - August 21th. |
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Open Air Ballet
On August 18th at 3:00 pm The Royal Danish Ballet invites to a free open-air ballet performance at the Citadel (Kastellet) in the heart of Copenhagen. The embarkment by the commandant quarters will set the charming scene for excerpts from the upcoming season's repertoire, including Bournonville's The Flower Festival in Genzano and 3rd act of A Folk Tale.
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Succes in Madrid
On June 2nd-9th The Royal Danish Ballet performed at the beautiful Teatro Real in Madrid. The Spanish critics welcomes the 8 performances as the best ballet event in the last five years.
On the tour principal dancer Gudrun Bojesen debuted as the Sylphide in La Sylphide and principal dancer Silja Schandorff made her debut as Elisa in The Conservatoire, staged by Anne-Marie Vessel Schlüter and, for the first time being an instructor, Thomas Lund
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02.03.25
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Frank Andersen receives Dance Awards 2002
On April 22nd Frank Andersen receives the prestigious prize Dance Awards 2002 at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York. Frank Andersen is awarded among others by his continuous work with Bournonville. |
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New interpretation of Napoli by Tim Rushton
Next season The Royal Danish Theatre offers a unique opportunity to experience a brand new and modern staging of Bournonville's classic Napoli. Choreographer Tim Rushton gives his personal view on Bournonville in Napoli – The New City - a guest performance by New Danish Dance Theatre spring 2003.
Premiere – New Stage: June 5. 6. 7. 10. 11. 12. 13. and 14. 2003. |
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Season 2002-03 at The Royal Danish Ballet
Next season there will be a chance to re-experience Bournonville's A Folk Tale and Napoli. The season also presents a ballet evening with the three most grand choreographers through the Danish ballet history: August Bournonville's The Conservatoire, Harald Lander's Etudes and Flemming Flindt's The Lesson.
Performance dates:
A Folktale: September 4. 6. 21. and 28. October 17. 26. and 30. November 1. 4. 8. 11. and 12. 2002
The Conservatoire, etc: November 15. 16. 20. 22. 23. and 27. 2002.
Napoli: April 11. 12. 14. 23. 24. 25. 29. and 30. May 2. 3. 7. 10. 14. and 24. 2003
Further information about the repertoire: www.kgl-teater.dk
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The Royal Danish Ballet on Tour
In June The Royal Danish Ballet will perform The Conservatoire and La Sylphide at Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain. There will be 8 performances on June 2. 3. 5. 6. 8. & 9.
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Thomas Lund as James
On October 1st principal dancer Thomas Lund will have his debut as James in La Sylphide at The Royal Danish Ballet. On the same evening soloist Morten Eggert is having his debut as Gurn.
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01.09.20
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Nikolaj Hübbe guests as James
Principal dancer of New York City Ballet Nikolaj Hübbe dances James in La Sylphide as a guest on October 25 and 26. The same two evenings former ballarina Sorella Englund dances Madge and Silja Schandorff dances the Sylphide.
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Season 2001-02 at The Royal Danish Ballet
Bournonville performances at The Royal Danish Ballet in the 2001-02 season:
Napoli - revival (performance dates: September 7, 11 ,13, 14, 21, 22, 27, 29)
La Sylphide - revival (performance dates: October 25, 26, 31 November 3, 16, 21, 23)
A Folk Tale - revival (performance dates: January 11, 12, 13, 14 February 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 20 March 7, 8, 9, 10 )
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The National Ballet of Canada
Principal dancer of New York City Ballet Nikolaj Hübbe's staging of Napoli excerpts with costumes by David Walker is being performed at The National Ballet of Canada together with MacMillan's Elite Syncopations, Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose and Tudor's The Judgement of Paris on February 19th-22nd.
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| 02.12.14 |
Bournonville Seminar in Rome
Together with head of the Royal Danish Ballet School Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter, the two principal dancers of RDB Gudrun Bojesen and Thomas Lund and the pianist Julian Thurber will give a three day lecture demonstration from December 15th-17th on August Bournonville at "Le Tecniche Accademiche Nel Mondo" in Rome.
The seminar includes a theoretical explanation of Bournonville's stylistical and technical principles, a break down of the Monday and Tuesday classes, a view into the Bournonville pantomime, excepts from early 1900-films showing how Bournonville was danced a hundred years ago and ofcouse, alot of dancing. |
| 02.12.12 |
Of Another World - Dancing between dream and reality
Festschrift presented to professor emer. Erik Aschengreen
An international anthology about dance as a world of dreams, ideals or paradises lost, a place where identity and reality are put at stake. Through essays, interviews and analytical reflections such diverse subjects are treated as Bournonville's ideal of a critic, Nijinsky's faun versus the romantic dream of elusive women, the broken marriage between music and dance, dancing as an erotic motif in the paintings of the Danish Golden Age, or the beast in dance from Swan Lake to butoh.The book is edited by Inger Damsholt & Monna Dithmer, and the articles are written by Deborah Jovitt, Stephanie Jordan, Ivor Guest, Lena Hammergreen, Nikolaj Hubbe, Dinna Bjørn, Ebbe Mørk, Ole Nørlyng, John Chr. Jørgensen, Inger Damsholt and Monna Dithmer
Published by Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2002, 215 pages. Hardbound, Illustrated, ISBN 87-7289-682-5
Homepage of Museum Tusculanum Press
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| 02.12.01 |
Diversions of the Royal Danish Ballet - Interviews with the dancers about the Bournonville tradition
New Bournonville book
Dancers are rarely asked when ballettraditions are being discussed. However, the Danish dance writer Anne Middelboe Christensen has interviewed 56 dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet; current principals, experienced character dancers, foreign newcomers. The oldest is 81, the youngest just 19, but they all explain their view upon the Bournonville tradition, their love for Bournonville's ballets and how they see the future of the Danish company which has gone through so much turmoil with five different artistic directors through the 1990s. These interviews are collected by Anne Middelboe Christensen, who is a critic with the Danish newspaper Information and Dance Magazine and lecturer at University of Copenhagen.
The book, which is in Danish but has a summary and an essay in English, offers a guide to the Bournonville ballets and to the artistic directors of the company. It is illustrated by a new collection black&white photographs of some of the dancers interviewed, shot by the Danish photographer Christoffer Regild.
"Hvor danser Den Kongelige Ballet hen - Interview med danserne om Bournonville-traditionen". Published by Schønberg Forlag, 2002, 264 pages. Softbound, Illustrated, ISBN 87-570-1627-5. Price: 279 Danish Kroner.
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| 02.06.25 |
Principal dancers and soloist of RDB and the South African Ballet Theatre
Peter Bo Bendixen and his group of principal dancers and soloist of the Royal Danish Ballet performs in a joint collaboration with the South African Ballet Theatre from June 26th - 30th. Also principal dancer of New York City Ballet Nikolaj Hübbe will be joining as a guest.
The perfomances take place on the Nelson Mandela Stage at the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg, and among other the programme includes Bournonville's The Flower Festival in Genzano and 3rd act of Napoli.
Homepage of The South African Ballet Theatre
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| 02.06.25 |
The Ballet of the Teatre dell'Opera, Rome
Principal dancers of The Royal Danish Ballet Gudrun Bojesen and Thomas Lund performed as guests with Carla Fracci's reknowned company in Rome from June 12th - 22nd. Together they first danced James and the Sylphide in La Sylphide in a production staged by Carla Fracci and Niels Kehlet, and the following week they danced the pas de deux from The Kermesse in Bruges in a gala intitled "Serata Romantica".
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| 02.05.09 |
Dinna Bjørn's Farewell Gala at the Norwegian Ballet
On May 11th at the farewell gala for director of the Norwegian Ballet Dinna Bjørn, principal dancers of The Royal Danish Ballet Gudrun Bojesen and Thomas Lund will be performing Bournonville's The Flower Festival in Genzano.
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| 02.04.11 |
The South African Ballet Theatre
Principal Dancers of The Royal Danish Ballet Peter Bo Bendixen is staging a production of La Sylphide at the South African Ballet Theatre from April 25th - May 5th at the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg.
Homepage of The South African Ballet Theatre
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| 02.04.02 |
The Baltic Ballet Festival, Riga
At the 7th International Baltic Ballet Festival at the Lavian National Opera on April 27th, principal dancers of The Royal Danish Ballet Caroline Cavallo and Thomas Lund will represent Denmark by performing Bournonville's The Flower Festival in Genzano.
Homepage of International Baltic Ballet Festival
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| 02.03.25 |
The New Zealand School of Dance
For 35th anniversary year of The New Zealand School of Dance they will be presenting The Flower Festival in Genzano pas de deux from November 21st - 30th. at the National Dance and Drama Centre, Wellington. The production is to be staged by principal dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet, Martin James, who is himself a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance.
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The Ballet Arizona
Principal dancer of New York City Ballet Nikolaj Hübbe is staging the pas de six from 3rd act of Napoli as part of Ballet Arizona's Autumn Program on October 19th, 20th, and 21st.
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