Eva Kistrup

A Miracle Returns

 

Liam Scarlett:

”Queen of Spades”

Royal Danish Ballet

The Old Stage

September 28, 2019

 

April 14, 2018 practically one and a half year ago, Liam Scarlett´ gave the Royal Danish Ballet and its audience an outstanding gift, his ballet version of Pushkin’s “Queen of Spades.” Probably the best ballet created for the company in many years.

For a long period, Royal Danish Ballet has seemed under a curse. While they have made outstanding performances of ballets created elsewhere, however when the guest choreographer came to create a ballet on the company, it often did not reach the expectations built up by the performance values of the borrowed material.  Liam Scarlett certainly broke that trend by creating “Queen of Spades”, a perfect vehicle for the company and its dramatically gifted dancers.

Ballet by Rule Book

 

Tilman O´Donnell:

Corpus Dogmas #1: One the One Hand

Corpus

The A Sale

September 14, 2019

Following a summer with several outstanding initiative´s from the Danish and international dance environment like “The Chamber Ballet”, DDT´s summer performance and an outstanding guest performance by Netherlands Dance Theater and with an upcoming run of Liam Scarlett´s brilliant “Queen of Spades” the audience is ready to embrace even more contemporary dance.

Let there be Light

 

Sol León & Paul Lightfoot:

”Shut Eye”

 

Chystal Pite:

“Solo Echo”

 

Sol León & Paul Lightfoot

“Singulíere Odyssée”

 

Netherlands Dance Theatre

The Old Stage

 

September 9, 2019

 

Revisiting the Nederland Dance Theatre´s  guest performance at Royal Danish Ballet, I could not help noticing the large group of friends, reviewers, balletomanes and RDB dancers who also needed another fix of the NDT medicine.

The program consisting of two León-Lightfoot creations and one by Cristal Pite, all three ballets making a strong impact. The concepts, the choreography, the performers, the music, the design - all came together in the best possible way.