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Royal Danish Ballet -- 2006-2007 Season
Ailey & Zuska
To the sound of spirituals...
Opera House - Takkelloftet
April 20, 21, 25, 26, 28, 30
May 1
Witness
Choreography: Alvin Ailey
Music: Traditional spiritual (My Soul is a Witness for my Lord)
Sung by Jessye Norman
Sets: Kirsten Lund Nielsen
Les bras de Mer
Choreography: Petr Zuska
Music: Yann Tiersen
Sets and Lighting Design: Petr Zuska
Costumes: Roman Solc
New Ballet
Choreography: Kim Brandstrup
About the Program
Illuminated by the light of a candle, Alvin Ailey's Witness is danced to the sound of spirituals. The main solo was created for the Old Stage, but gets a new vitality in the close environs with the audience in Takkelloftet.
Who is the person by my side, who am I?, asks choreographer Petr Zuska in the ballet Les Bras de Mer, which had it's Danish premiere last season. Zuska zooms in on the relationship between two people...and their furniture.
The evening's third item is a whole new ballet created by Kim Brandstrup.
"It is indeed something of a drama between him and her, which unfolds." - Politiken on Les Bras de Mer
American Mixture
Two new offerings of sharp modern ballet...
Royal Theatre - Old Stage
March 17, 18, 21, 23, 28
April 17, 19, 23, 27
May 2, 3, 9
New Ballet
Choreography: Nicolo Fonte
Music: Kira and the Kindred Spirits
Lighting Design: Brad Fields
New Ballet
Choreography: Matjas Mrozewski
Sets: Morgan Large
Lighting Design: Brad Fields
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven
Choreography: Ulysses Dove
Music: Arvo Pärt
Conductor: Graham Bond
The Royal Orchestra
About the Program
Arvo Pärt's music can send the soul soaring, and that is exactly the impact of Ulysses Dove's moving ode for six dancers, which takes place outside heaven's gate. Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven is on the program together with two new works of striking modern ballet by the young, forward-moving choreographers Fonte from New York and Mrozewski from Canada. The music is supplied by the Danish rock diva Kira and the Kindred Spirits.
Caroline Mathilde
A dangerous cocktail of madness and love...
Royal Theatre - Old Stage
February 9, 10, 13, 14, 21, 26
March 6, 8, 10, 14, 20, 22, 26
Choreography: Flemming Flindt
Music: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sets: Jens-Jacob Worsaae
Conductor: Graham Bond / Henrik Vagn Christensen
The Royal Orchestra
Zealand Symphony Orchestra
About the Program
It is a dangerous cocktail of madness and love which mixes in this historical drama about the love-triangle between the ambitious personal physician Struense, the very young Queen Caroline Mathilde and her raving mad consort Christian the 7th.
The psychological and erotic play between the three main characters is depicted intelligently and titillatingly in Flemming Flindt's choreography, magnificently framed by Jens-Jakob Worsaae's roccoco sets.
Dans Mozart!
A tribute to Mozart
Opera House - Takkelloftet
November 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19
Three new Mozart ballets
Choreographers: Jorma Elo, Louise Midjord and Pär Isberg
Music: W. A. Mozart
If movements were sound, Jorma Elo would break the sound barrier with his explosive ballet. The Finnish choreographer is a mukti-talented artist, creating costumes, video and light, which makes his works remarkable 'total theatre'. Together with the Dane, Louse Midjord, and the Swede, Pär Isberg, he sends a dancing-congratulations on the 250 years anniversary of one music history's greatest figures. A sensitive tribute to Mozart with three fanciful pieces to the composers notes set to dance.
The Lesson & La Sylphide
A striking psychological thriller
Royal Theatre - Old Stage
September 27, 30
November 7, 9, 11, 14
February 19, 28
March 2
The Lesson
Choreography: Flemming Flindt
Music: Georges Delerue
Sets: Bernard Daydé
La Sylphide
Choreography: August Bournonville
Music: H.S. Løvenskiold
Sets: Mikael Melbye
Conductor: Peter Ernst Lassen
The Radio Orchestra
About the Program
When Flemming Flind's masterpiece The Lesson was staged in London in 2005, children were forbidden. In Copenhagen, the audience enjoys this absurd ballet about a psychopathic dance teacher whose passion for the young female students gets out of control. And the passion rages far in Bournonville's heartwrending masterpiece, La Sylphide, where James burns all his bridges to follow his romantic urges.
"...a striking psychological thriller at Old Stage..." - Berlingske Tidende on The Lesson
Ballet at the Grønnegårds Theatre
Experience the Royal Danish Ballet under the lime trees
July 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
1963: Yesterday
Choreography: John Neumeier
Music: The Beatles
Costumes: John Neumeier
Nomade
Choreography: Tim Rushton
Music: Pärt: Fratres
Costumes: Tim Rushton
Polacca
Choreography: Anna Lærkesen
Music: Frederic Chopin
Costumes: Jens-Jacob Worsaae
About the Program
Experience summer vacation together with the Royal Danish Ballet in the beautiful surroundings of the Grønnegårds Theatre's courtyard garden. A brand new collaboration with Grønnegard's Theatre provides a new possibility for experiencing the Royal Danish Ballet under the lime trees, where they dance a selection of the audience favorites from the repertoire.
The dancers who are scheduled to perform include Silja Schandorff, Gudrun Bojeson, Caroline Cavallo, Thomas Lund, Kristoffer Sakurai and Kenneth Greve.
Le Sacre du Printemps
One of the biggest scandals in the history of theatre...
Opera House, Big Stage
May 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23, 26, 30, 31
Le Sacre du Printemps
Choreography and sets: Jorma Uotinen
Music: Igor Stravinskij
Costumes: Erika Turunen
Lighting design: Mikki Kunttu
New Ballet
Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music: Igor Stravinskij
Sets: Rikke Juellund
Costumes: Hedi Slimane
Lighting designs: Mikki Kunttu
Conductor: Michael Schønwandt / Thomas Søndergård
The Royal Orchestra
About the Program
Primitive virgin-female ? to wild, untamed sounds was more than what the Parisian bourgeoise could handle in 1919 and the premiere of the ballet La Sacre du Printemps developed into one of theatre history's biggest scandals. We have asked the Finnish choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to create a new interpretation of Stravinsky's intoxicating score. And so Sidi Larber Cherkaoui, one of the world's hottest, youngest choreographers, comes to Denmark to create a work for the Royal Danish Ballet. An evening with world-class music and ballet.
Napoli
The essence of Bournonville and Danish ballet
Royal Theatre - Old Stage
December 20, 21
January 16, 23
February 2, 6
March 27
April 13, 21
Choreography: August Bournonville, Choreography 2. act: Dinna Bjørn
Music: Niels W. Gade, Edvard Helsted, H.S. Paulli and H.C. Lumbye
Sets: Søren Frandsen and Ove Christian Pedersen
Costumes: Søren Frandsen and Kirsten Lund Nielsen
Conductor: Henrik Vagn Christensen
The Royal Orchestra
About the Program
Napoli took the breath from the international arts press at the 3rd Bournonville Festival in 2005, when the master's classic ballets were all on the stage. Napoli is the very essence of Bournonville and Danish ballet, and the third act is the Royal Danish Ballet's answer to champagne: a golden, bubbly and firework-sparkly in color, dance and joie de vivre.
"With Bournonville the world is a better place to live" - The New York Times
Reqiuem
Opera House - Big Stage
September 16, 18, 21, 22, 25, 28
October 4, 5
See the 2005-06 topic for more info...
Schumann's 2nd Symphony and Etudes
Physical feats and musical beauty
Royal Theatre - Old Stage
October 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 31
November 1, 18, 22, 24
Schumann's 2nd Symphony
Choreography: Uwe Scholz
Music: Robert A. Schumann
Sets: Uwe Scholz
Lighting design: Michael Röger
Etudes
Choreography: Harald Lander
Music: Knudåge Riisager
Sets: Søren Frandsen
Costumes: Kirsten Lund Nielsen
Conductor: Graham Bond
Zealand Symphony Orchestra
About the Program
The dancers dread it. The audience loves it. Harald Lander's Etudes is one of the most demanding and respected works of dance. Together with Schumann's 2nd Symphony, the public will become greatly spoiled. An evening, where physical feats, musical beauty and classical ballet blend together and go direct to the blood.
"Etudes was the jewel, when the Royal Theatre inagurated its new opera house" -- Berlingske Tidende
Svanesøen
One of the world's most well-known ballets
Opera House, Big Stage
December 3, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22
January 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 31
February 3
Choreography: Peter Martins after Petipa, Ivanov and Balanchine
Music: Peter Tchaikovsky
Sets: Per Kirkeby
Costumes: Per Kirkeby and Kirsten Lund Nielsen
Lighting design: Jørn Melin
Conductor: Tadeusz Wojciechowski
The Royal Orchestra
About the Program
Behind this production of one of the world's most well known ballets stand two world-famous Danes. Choreographer Peter Martins and painter Per Kirkeby have closely collaborated in the creation, for their own version of Swan Lake for the Royal Danish Ballet, of a whole special universe of classical ballet and abstract painting. Don't miss this timeless drama about pure love, which is forsaken for a moment's flirting.
"A sparklingly extravagent and refrshingly simple Swan Lake" -- Politiken
Trio Extravaganza
Three modern highlights
Royal Theatre - Old Stage
September 1, 2, 6, 7, 12, 14
October 3, 7, 10, 13, 17, 25
Jord
Choreography: Jorma Uotinen
Music: Metallica and Apocalyptica
Sets and Lighting design: Mikki Kunttu
Costumes: Erika Turunen
La Stravaganza
Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Evelyn Ficarra,Robert Normandeau, Serge Morand
Sets: Maya Schweizer
Costumes: Hervé Pierre
Lighting design: Mark Stanley
Colour of Love
Choreography: Yuan Yuan Wang
Music: Wei Du
Sets: Jiang Han
Costumes: Jiani Zhong
Lighting design: Mikael Sylvest
About the Program
On the same evening, experience Finn Jorma Uotinen's masculine fests in Jord, Frenchman Preljocaj's dance-battle between classic and modern ballet La Stravaganza and Chinese choreographer Yuan Yuan Wang's romantic tour de force, Colour of Love.
"It is masculine, ? and beautiful to see" - Jyllands Posten about Jord[/b]
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