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Esther Lee Wilkinson and Tim Matiakis:
"We Are not Wawing - We Are Drowning"
Corpus - the in house company at Royal Danish Ballet
May 30, 2013
The new in house company of Royal Danish Ballet goes all in with a blockbuster full evening ballet using more than 40 dancers, flying houses, moving woods and tackling the subject of death. It include funny, touching and virtuoso segments, but it is in dire need of editing and is struggling to understand and use the company talent right.
Tim Rushton:
"Love Songs"
Dansk Danseteater
Royal Theatre
May 2013
Awards to Alban Lendorf & Gudrun Bojesen
Review of Ole Nørlyng's book "Et Folkesagn"
Seing Tim Rushton's hit ballet "Love Songs" with his own troupe one not only see his parallel work to Bournonville's own view on "Napoli": "I could possibly make something that was better, but not something that was more fortuitous", one also falls into time travelling to the not so distant future, where RDB will tackle Twyla Tharp's " Come Fly Away".
August Bournonville:
"La Ventana" directed by Gudrun Bojesen
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August Bournonville:
"The Kermes in Bruges" directed by Ib Andersen,
THe Royal Danish Ballet
April 30 and May 3, 2013
Two leading interpreters of the Bournonville style, Gudrun Bojesen and Ib Andersen, present their take on how to stage Bournonville today, and their views could not differ more. Where Bojesen goes outside Bournonville to give "La Ventana" more story and a link to Flamenco, Ib Andersen embraces the tradition and tries to go deeper into the inherited material. One strategy succeeds and the other fails.