(Andrew Bowmann and Gudrun Bojesen)
Jerome Robbins:
"Dances at a Gathering" & "West Side Story Suite"
The Royal Danish Ballet,
The Opera
September 2009
For a choreographer so well suited to the Royal Danish Ballet, Jerome Robbins' ballets have been the obvious missing component in the RDB repertoire. The productions have been too few and too far apart and more often than not we have had to survive on his small scale works. No other ballet has been missed like "Dances at a Gathering" and missed by generations of dancers and audiences. There cannot be many other ballets so suitable to a high standard dramatically toned classical company. But instead of the real thing the company has presented several ballets that resembles "Dances at a Gathering" like Hans van Manen's "Song without Words". Finally we have our hands on the original.