Eva Kistrup

The Classic Dilemma

 

 

 

 

Cathy Marston:

Liasons Dangereux

Royal Danish Ballet

The Drama House

May 27, 2017

 

Pär Isberg:

The Dream of Swan Lake

 Royal Swedish Ballet

Malmoe Opera

May 26, 2017

 

 

 

Cathy Marston´s creation for the Royal Danish Ballet literary places itself between two chairs. It should be either significantly longer or shorter. It succeeds in showing that the 18^th century novels in letters has all the ingridiences needed for a story telling ballet, but the decision to make it an almost full night ballet with a small cast and practically no corps de ballet hinders it in reaching its full potential.

It should either have been a shorter chamber ballet like The Moors Pavane which managed to get the full Othello into a half hour long ballet or getting the full Macmillan or Neumeier treatment.

Same Procedure as Last Year?

 

 

The Hübbery

Royal Danish Ballet

The Old Stage

May 6, 2017

In all this season is one of the bests season, during Nikolaj Hübbe’s reign at the Royal Danish Ballet. We have been able to enjoy a long list of fine and impressive productions like “Swan Lake”, “Giselle”, “Alice”, “Beginning and Ending”, “Infra”, “Vertical Road” and a healthy dose of Balanchine, including “Jewels”, “Theme & Variations” and “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux”. One can almost forgive that Bournonville practically is sitting this season out.

However, one standard component is in need of resurrection and that is the concept “The Hübbery”, originally started as an aim to bring in non-converted ballet ignorants by mixing ballet with other forms of arts and entertainments, thereby hoping to broaden the ballet audience base.