by Amy Brandt | Mar 4, 2025 | News, Onstage, The Latest
August Bournonville’s 1836 ballet La Sylphide, set in Scotland, has long been dear to Ethan Stiefel’s heart. The former American Ballet Theatre principal and Center Stage star danced the lead role of James several times, and for many years trained with legendary...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Apr 26, 2024 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
Midway through Harald Lander’s one-act ballet Etudes, part of the Royal Danish Ballet’s Giant Steps mixed-bill this season, a ballerina wearing a white, romantic tutu enters the Old Stage at the Royal Danish Theatre. The corps, which has been demonstrating classroom...
by Sarah McKenna Barry | Dec 14, 2023 | Everything "Nutcracker", The Latest
As we inch closer to the holidays, ballet schools and companies around the world are gearing up for performances of Nutcracker. For many young dancers, this is their entry point into live performance. And, for a number of children in elite ballet schools, the next few...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 21, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Onstage, Pointe+, Videos
“See, understand, react,” Frank Andersen says to Oregon Ballet Theatre principal Charles-Louis Yoshiyama as they work through a scene of Danish choreographer August Bournonville’s 1836 ballet, La Sylphide. He points to the front of the studio, as if to an audience....
by Lucy Van Cleef | Mar 4, 2019 | News, Profiles
Inside the sky-lit Studio 1 at Staatsballett Berlin, Frank Andersen is just like a kid in a candy store as he leads an Act I rehearsal for August Bournonville’s La Sylphide. Passing gleefully from dancer to dancer, he assigns each with a specific story to tell....
by Amy Brandt | Oct 2, 2018 | News, Profiles
This week marks a milestone achievement for Oregon Ballet Theatre: October 6–13, the company will unveil Danish choreographer August Bournonville’s full-length Napoli. OBT is only the second American company to perform the full-length version (Ballet...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 18, 2018 | News
On June 20, Royal Danish Ballet will open the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival with a weeklong run in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre. The celebrated relationship between the Copenhagen-based company and the Pillow dates back to 1954, when leading RDB soloist Inge...
by Rachel Hellwig | Aug 21, 2017 | Profiles, Viral Videos
The realms of fairy tale ballets are filled with imaginary queens. But in Denmark, the nation’s real-life, reigning monarch, Queen Margrethe II, fills the stages of fairy tale ballets with her original costume and decor designs. In fact, she’s been the...