BOURNONVILLE IN BIARRITZ

From the 26th to the 31st July 2009 inclusive.

Auguste Bournonville (1805.1879)

From the 26th to the 31st July 2009 in Biarritz, with the exceptional help of personalities who are particularly attached to Auguste Bournonville’s work, the Academy will give the opportunity to be initiated to the style and the repertory of that choreographer whose place in the history of Danish and international ballet is both special and fundamental.

This year is the second edition of the event in France.

Participants: The classes are open to pre-professional dancers from the age of 16 and to professional dancers.

Auguste Bournonville who was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a French dancer and ballet teacher who lived in exile in Danemark, studied ballet with his father in Copenhagen before completing his training in Paris with Pierre Gardel and Auguste Vestris. He joined the Paris Opera in 1826, but left France in 1830 to become a principal at the Royal Danish Ballet and succeeded his father as a ballet master, a post that he held until 1877. Throughout his life he supported the lightness , the elegance and the phrasing of the French balletic style
. The style that he taught and that survived him thanks to an uninterrupted tradition. The author of around fifty ballets essentially resting on a harmonious and happy vision of life, Bournonville, in spite of the way ballet changed during his lifetime, as testified by the “romantic ballet”, gave equal importance to male and female dancers
. That was an esthetic measure but a social one as well since it enabled the Danish school to train great male dancers.

Daily programme:

Morning – Ballet class centered on the Bournonville technique (Tuesday’s class) and study of Auguste Bournonville’s repertoire through excerpts of his repertoire, this year focusing on La Sylphide and La Ventana (pre-professionals and professionals classes et classes reserved to observers).

Afternoon: Pantomime class and study of the Bournonville repertoire.

Films, lectures and talks with the participants and the Academy teachers.

Tuition fees: For pre-professional and professional dancers for six days : 500 €, Lunch included.

Young dancers from 14 to 16 years : 285€, Lunch included.

Observers : 250 €

Logistics: For the six days : 400 €, Accommodation, breakfast, evening meal, and supervision. Morning and evening transport (minibus from the Conservatoire to the Lycée hotelier)

Total for the week: For pre-professional and professional dancers : 900 € Classes, boarding and minibus.

For young dancers : 685 € Classes, boarding and minibus

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Teachers:

Frank Andersen, Director of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1985 to 1994 and from 2002 to 2008, and of the Royal Swedish Ballet from 1998 to 2002.

Erik Aschengreen, Danish teacher and critic.

Dinna Bjorn, Director of the Norwegian National Ballet from 1990 to 2002 and the Finnish National Ballet from 2002 to 2008.

Eva Kloborg, Teacher and character dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet.

Thomas Lund, Principal dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet.

Ole Norlyng, Danish art critic.

Flemming Ryberg, Principal dancer and character dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet.

Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter, Ballet mistress at the Royal Danish Ballet and ex director of the Royal Danish Ballet School.

Eric Viudes, Principal dancer at the Norwegian National Ballet and teacher.

At the end of an intensive week’s work with the Academie Bournonville in Biarritz, an open day will be arranged in order to show the result of the work. There will be a party to mark the end of this Bournonville edition and each participant will receive a diploma of attendance.

Bournonville in Biarritz is based on the Bournonville Academy that was organised twice in the States and four times in Copenhagen between 1985 and 1992 and at its first edition in France in Biarritz last year 2009.

According to the planning of the company, the whole Bournonville Academy, teachers and participants, will also be able to attend a meeting or a performance of Malandain Ballet Biarritz.

Place: Conservatoire Maurice Ravel – Côte Basque,  19 Rue Jules Ferry, 64200 Biarritz, France.

Association « Bournonville à Biarritz »

Maison des Associations, 2 rue Darritchon – 64200 Biarritz – France

Malandain Ballet Biarritz > tel
. +33 5 59 24 67 19 – ccn@malandainballet.com

Artistic director > Monik Elgueta tel. +33 5 59 23 95 12 / +33 6 33 48 01 79

Academy director > Dinna Bjorn dinna.bjorn@mail.dk

Bournonville in Biarritz: http://www.malandainballet.com/assets/pdf/StageBournonvilleGB.pdf

Photos : Malandain Ballet Biarritz