by Emilia & Linda on December 31, 2010
It was a rollercoaster of a year for us. Topics like Black Swan, Jennifer Homans’s Apollo’s Angels and #Sugarplumgate kept us on our toes and led to interesting discussions and exchanges via social media channels. From an audience perspective we were curious to explore different productions and companies, so we traveled to Copenhagen, Tokyo and [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on November 23, 2010
Young choreographer Christopher Wheeldon created The Wanderers for The Royal Danish Ballet in 2008. This season the Company commissioned him to do a completely new version of The Sleeping Beauty. According to the RDB website his take on the classic is “a fantasy-filled adventure for both children and adults offering drama and sublime classical dance”. [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on November 19, 2010
We’ve been busy guest blogging this month! Here is an extract of a recent interview with the Royal Ballet’s newest Principal dancer Nehemiah Kish that we did for the ROH blog: New principal dancer Nehemiah Kish is featured in the Royal Opera House’s latest podcast where he talks about his experience of coming into the [...]
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by cstalcott on May 29, 2010
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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by Emilia on April 21, 2010
Spotlight on Five Different Dance Blogs Blogs are a simple and effective way to communicate. Everyone can have one and there are many user friendly blogging platforms out there (Blogger, TypePad, Tumblr, WordPress, etc.). Of course they vary in quality and scope, but blogs have become an important tool for the ever-growing online dance community. [...]
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