by cstalcott on May 25, 2010
When we spoke to choreographer Kim Brandstrup earlier this year we were intrigued by his ongoing project with The Royal Danish Ballet, a company we have been lucky enough to visit recently. Kim was working on two matching ballets, one all-male, another all-female which would premiere days apart in different mixed bills. When we found [...]
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A Suite of Dances,
Alba Nadal,
Alban Lendorf,
Bournonville,
Bournonville variationer,
Carling Talcott,
Constantine Baecher,
Eid♂lon,
James Clark,
Jerome Robbins,
José Limón,
Kim Brandstrup,
Kim Helweg,
Les Gentilhommes,
Mads Eriksen,
Marcin Kupinski,
MK Danseur Noble,
Nehemiah Kish,
Nikolaj Hubbe,
Peter Martins,
RDB,
Royal Ballet,
Royal Danish Ballet,
Sebastian Kloborg,
The Unsung,
Thomas Lund,
Ulrik Birkkjær,
West Side Story Suite
by Linda on December 7, 2009
19th century ballet had no qualms about favoring the ballerina over the danseur. The bulk of the classical repertoire seemed intent on relegating male dancers into partnering or brief virtuoso solos tailor-made for a particular dancer (think Cecchetti‘s Bluebird). But the 20th century saw balance restablished with a generation of danseurs like Nureyev and Baryshnikov [...]
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A Suite of Dances,
Afternoon of a Faun,
Apollo,
Bach,
Balanchine,
Begoña Cao,
Britten,
Carlos Acosta,
Cello Suites,
Daria Klimentová,
Debussy,
ENB,
Erina Takahashi,
Junor de Oliveira Souza,
Natalie Clein,
Polyhimnia,
Robbins,
Sadler's Wells,
Terpsichore,
Young Apollo
by Emilia on May 18, 2009
Now that we know what both the Royal Ballet’s and the Sadler’s Wells’ 2009/2010 dance seasons look like, it’s time to start penciling in dates, drawing cast plans, organizing bookings and, most importantly, cancelling any previous engagements. Because the autumn/winter dance season, after the starvation of summer months, supersedes anything else we may have had [...]
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2009-10 Season,
A Suite of Dances,
Afternoon of a Faun,
Alina Cojocaru,
Apollo,
Balanchine,
Ballets Russes,
Carlos Acosta,
Christopher Wheeldon,
Diaghilev,
Edward Watson,
Glen Tetley,
Jerome Robbins,
Johan Kobborg,
Lauren Cuthbertson,
Leanne Benjamin,
Mara Galeazzi,
Mayerling,
Melissa Hamilton,
Morphoses,
Nutcraker,
Royal Ballet,
Rupert Pennefather,
Russell Maliphant,
Sadler's Wells,
Sergei Polunin,
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui,
Sphinx,
Steven McRae,
Thiago Soares,
Wayne McGregor,
Wendy Whelan
