MetteWindberg

Mette has a Master of Arts in Dance Studies and Communication & Arts Journalism from the University of Copenhagen. She is based in London where she works as a freelance writer and producer through her company Turnout Arts. You can read more about Mette on her blog (http://londonyall.blogspot.co.uk/ ) and follow her on Twitter @mettewb.

Nikolaj Hübbe's production of La Sylphide

Ballet, Ballet Around the World, Ballet Companies, Ballet History, Interviews, The Ballet Bag Elsewhere January 8, 2015

A New Sylphide at RDB: An Interview with Nikolaj Hübbe

By MetteWindberg

It seems fair to say that James, the young Scotsman of La Sylphide, has followed Nikolaj Hübbe faithfully throughout his career. Or perhaps it’s…

Ballet, Ballet Around the World, Dancers, Interviews April 7, 2014

An Interview with Alban Lendorf

By MetteWindberg

It’s the first interval at Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, hauntingly performed by the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. I’m queuing for a drink, and so…

Contemporary Dance, Review July 21, 2013

New Movement Collective in NEST

By MetteWindberg

Site-specific performances can be frustrating: if they’re not well constructed or if they give audiences too many paths to navigate, they can leave us…

Ballet Around the World, Dancers, Interviews July 18, 2013

Ida Praetorius: Danish Ballet Star in the Making

By MetteWindberg

Towards the end of Act 1 in John Neumeier’s Romeo & Juliet there is a scene where the star-crossed lovers meet properly – alone and unmasked –…