Eva Kistrup

Trotting Along

Corpus:

242 Years in Leotard:

Anne Marie Vessel:

"Petit Voyage"

 Staffan Valdemar Holm and the Dancers:

"Recollect"

 

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George Balanchine:

"Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements"

Victor Gsovsky:

"Grand Pas Classique"

Ohad Naharin:

"Minus 7"

Company B in Rødovre Center

The Royal Danish Ballet

November 2013

 

The Royal Danish Ballet continue their season of small scall productions by Corpus, the company within the company's "242 years in Leotards", showcasing the character dancers.

The official employ Character Dancer is a fairly new category on the RDB rooster. Not that the company did not employ characters dancers before, the dancers in question just kept their original position whether it was First Principal Dancer Kirsten Simone or Member of the Corps Lillian Jensen. During Frank Andersen reign the category emerged as did the category Soloists and the primary older dancers doing character part was transferred to the new emploi. The major difference on the outside was that the emploi Principal Dancer became synonymous with dancers dancing the leading roles

The - Almost too - Perfect Ingénue

Interview with Ida Praetorius, Royal Danish Ballet

October 2013

Last season was a dream season for first year dancer Ida Praetorius. Her Juliet in the John Neumeier version made her a household name. She added even more status by partnering Alban Lendorf in Ib Andersen's hit version of "The Kermesse in Bruges".

She started the season by winning The Erik Bruhn competition. Not only is she the first Danish girl to win since Silja Schandorff. Her partner Andreas Kaas won Best Male Dancer and their choreographer Alessandro Pereira won for best choreography. And she had the best possible finale to the season, by performing at The John Neumeier anniversary gala with top international stars, by dancing the Pas De Deux from "Daphnis and Chloe" with Andreas Kaas, directed by John Neumeier himself.  I meet her to discuss her accolades so far and to learn how she will tackle here future career that seems so promising.