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 Amy Brandt | Oct 20, 2016 | Company Life
Imagine learning a 150-year-old ballet with nothing more than the choreographer’s yellowed, handwritten notes and an unfamiliar score to go on. Now, imagine that choreographer is none other than August Bournonville. For the last month, that’s exactly what...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
“I have accomplished something and enjoyed my artistic career,” wrote the great Danish choreographer August Bournonville in the introduction to his memoir, My Theatre Life. The year was 1846, and he had been choreographing and directing the Royal Danish...