Eva Kistrup

Director's Cut

Dance2Go

Wayne McGregor: "Chroma"

José Limon: Excerpt of "The Unsung" 

Nikolaj Hübbe & Eva Draw: Excerpt of "La Bayadére"

Alternate cast

February 2012

 

The first cast of "Chroma" has so far been the only cast. We are finally getting a second cast but the first have so dominated the ballet that it is difficult to make mental room for other interpretations. In "The Unsung" several solos are surprisingly unsonged as the work is cut to make the Dance2Go a faster and smother program.

Meet the other Danish Ballet

Luckily  the Royal Danish Ballet is not the only major dance company in Denmark. Dansk Danseteater, led in a decade, by Royal Ballet alumni and former RDB dancer Tim Rushton has
also developed an international presence and will tour Washington, New York and
Boston in March with their smash hit “Love Stories”. Dansk Danseteater has
performed in USA earlier at Jacob Pillows in 2004 with great success and much
is expected of this tour from both sides of the Atlantics.

Hübbe's Big - and Small - Challenge

Dance2Go:

Wayne McGregor: Chroma

José Limon: The Unsung

Nikolaj Hübbe & Eva Draw: La Bayadére Act 3

The Royal Danish Ballet

February 15 - 16, 2013

 

This year's Dance2Go, (ballet at budget price) presents a mix of modern, not so modern and classical bravuora dance, but it also presents a clear insight of the main challenge for Nikolaj Hübbe. How to develop the significant talent base in the company while also maintaining and developing the existing talent? Ad the luxury challenge on how to stimulate a super dancer like Alban Lendorf, and you have a very clear view of the costs of cutting repertoire and number of performances. As this programme shows, rehashing and multiple casts is only part of the solution.