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 Natalia Boesch | May 19, 2020 | Technique, Training
The classic Bournonville-style grand jeté en avant, says Thomas Lund, director of the Royal Danish Ballet School, “is a bouquet of flowers for the audience. We say, ‘Welcome to Copenhagen.’ ” Even if this is your first excursion into...