The Royal Danish Ballet in New York.
Troupe treats classics like the Dane of its existence:
The Royal Danish Ballet in New York.
Mon., Jul. 4, 2011, 06:35am about The Royal Danish Ballet at David H
. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center; in A big treat in “Bournonville Variations” is watching Thomas Lund dance. Lund, one of the troupe’s senior dancers, is a master of the style, with quicksilver speed, a cushiony jump and the ability to move as seamlessly as if he were embroidering the stage. He and company director Nikolaj Hubbe assembled sections of Bournonville’s intricate classroom exercises into a showpiece ballet, modernized with updated mottled gray costumes but shadowy lighting that makes it hard to see the steps — and they’re the real stars.
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And June 15, 2011 ALASTAIR MACAULAY wrote in :
See Naples and then die? In the passage of his memoirs that describes his visit to Naples and his subsequent composition of his three-act ballet “Napoli” (1842), the Danish choreographer August Bournonville quotes the old motto.