Eva Kistrup

Grand & Bland

Flemming Flindt:

"The Lesson"

August Bournonville:

"La Sylphide"

Royal Danish Ballet

September 24 2011

"The Lesson" will probably be the only Flindt ballet that will stay in RDB's future repertoire and "La Sylphide" is the ballet that will never leave the same repertoire. But although "La Sylphide" cannot be kicked out, production values should not be jeopardized and it should be performed with passion, commitment and interpretation. Yesterdays performance showed how a strong performance ad longevity to "The Lesson" Whereas "La Sylphide" came across as bland and where James most suprisingly could be overshadowed by Gurn.

How not to treat a star

Flemming Flindt:

"The Lesson"

August Bournonville:

"La Sylphide"

Royal Danish Ballet

September 17, 2011

It was a given fact that the next stop on Alban Lendorf's meteoric rise would be the national  hero James in "La Sylphide" and the first night of the new season was dedicated to the anticipated event.

Alban Lendorf was as great a James as expected but the performance was not 100% successful. The ballet management must learn the lesson that a star turn also demands that the other roles are cast on the same high level or as close as possible to create real magic.