by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 20, 2014 | News
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. The Royal Danish Ballet will perform a program featuring excerpts from August Bournonville’s Napoli and La Sylphide, among other pieces, at the Joyce Theater January 13 through 18....
by Laura Cappelle | Jan 21, 2014 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
This is Pointe’s February/March 2014 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here. It’s 10 am on a cool fall morning in a Royal Danish Ballet studio, and only one dancer is wearing pointe shoes at the barre as company class starts: Ida Praetorius....
by Jennifer Heimlich | Jan 18, 2011 | Profiles
On a stage filled with dainty Danish dancers, Shelby Elsbree looks very American: spunky, playful and a little bit feisty. Even in the prim, polite confines of Bournonville choreography, this 20-year-old Royal Danish Ballet corps member moves with a sense of bubbly...
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...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
It seems the Balanchine–Bournonville connection is alive and strong in the U.S. Not only did the Royal Danish Ballet recently complete a successful tour to NYC, and not only will New York City Ballet—helmed by Dane Peter Martins—present Martins’ La Sylphide...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Photo by Daniel Neuhaus, Courtesy NBoC. Many dancers aspire to perform abroad, and for National Ballet of Canada corps member Emma Hawes, that dream is about to come true. Next Monday she begins an exchange program with the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, where...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
A quintessential Bournonville piece, Flower Festival in Genzano was originally a one-act ballet choreographed in 1858 for the Royal Danish Ballet. Although the full ballet was inspired by an Alexandre Dumas tale, today only the pas de deux survives. Nevertheless, the...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Bugge’s take on the Royal Danish Ballet in La Bayadére The best ballet photographers have the intuition of a dancer. They know exactly how to catch the greatest height of a jump or the top of an arabesque. But form aside, very few can translate the thrill and...