Nouvelles du Ballet Royal du Danemark

[haydn]

Le New York Times publie aujourd'hui une interview du directeur de la troupe, Nikolaj Hübbe, à propos de cette Bayadère, justement :

[haydn]

Comme chaque année, Cedric Lambrette, danseur belge du Ballet Royal du Danemark organise un concours de chorégraphie, dont la 6ème édition se déroulera le vendredi 29 mars :





Informations : http://www.cph-icc.dk/

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[sophia]

Le concours est diffusé en direct et en streaming ce soir à 19h30 : http://new.livestream.com/accounts/453636/events/1978089

[voyageur]

The Royal Danish Ballet has announced its 2013-14 season, which (in addition to the guest appearances of the Mariinsky I posted in the Mariinsky tour thread) will include Napoli, Manon and Bayadere. There's to be a new Hubbe work (perhaps Twelfth Night??? but I'm not sure.)

[haydn]

A l'affiche de la saison 2013-2014 (pour le moment, le programme n'est annoncé qu'en Danois :

http://issuu.com/kglteater/docs/dkt_1314_katalog_enkelt



Come, Fly away
Twyla Tharp / Frank Sinatra
Du 28 septembre au 28 novembre 2013


Fabelmageren ("Les Conteurs")
Esther Lee Wilkinson / Pot-pourri classique
Du 12 au 16 octobre 2013


"Dans2go"

- Symphonie en trois mouvements
George Balanchine / Igor Stravinsky
- Grand pas classique
Victor Gsovski / Daniel François Esprit Auber
- Minus 7
Ohad Naharin / Antonio Vivaldi - Frédéric Chopin - Dean Martin
Du 26 octobre 2013 au 15 février 2014


242 år i trikot ("242 ans en collants")
Spectacle de danses de caractère conçu par Anne-Marie Vessel-Schlutter
Anne-Marie Vessel-Schlutter / Musiques traditionnelles
Du 7 au 9 novembre 2013


Nøddeknækkeren ("Casse-Noisette")
George Balanchine / Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
Du 5 au 22 décembre 2013


Napoli
Sorella Englund - Nikolaj Hübbe d'après August Bournonville / Edvard Helsted - H.S. Paulli - H.C. Lumbye - Louise Alenius
Du 31 janvier au 18 mars 2014


Manon
Kenneth MacMillan / Jules Massenet
Du 22 février au 12 mars 2014


Hübberiet ("Hübberiades")
Soirée-surprise conçue par Nikolaj Hübbe
28 février, 7 mars et 28 mars 2014


La Bayadère
Marius Petipa avec chorégraphies additionnelles de Nikolaj Hübbe et Eva Draw / Ludwig Minkus
Du 4 avril au 14 mai 2014


Helligtrekongers-Aften ("La Nuit des rois")
Nikolaj Hübbe d'après William Shakespeare
10 au 15 mai 2014


Compagnie invitée : Ballet du Mariinsky

- Svanesøen ("Le Lac des cygnes")
Marius Petipa / Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
Du 13 au 16 janvier 2014
Soirée Fokine
- Schéhérazade
Michel Fokine / Nicolaï Rinski-Korsakov
- Chopiniana
Michel Fokine / Frédéric Chopin
- Ildfuglen ("L'Oiseau de feu")
Michel Fokine / Igor Stravinsky
Du 17 au 19 janvier 2014


Compagnie invitée : Dansk Danseteater (cie. comtemporaine)

Black Diamond
Tim Rushton / NN
Du 9 au 11 mai 2014

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[voyageur]

Two new Bournonville productions staged by two dancers I have revered in Bournonville was an irresistible draw for me, and so on 3 and 4 May I watched a double bill of La Ventana (staged by Gudrun Bojesen) and Kermesse in Bruges (staged by Ib Andersen).

Bojesen (who incidentally has just received the Reumert award for her performance in Lady of the Camelias) obviously devoted substantial time, thought and effort to what I believe is her first production, taking several months off from dancing in order to prepare. Unfortunately, it appears that she was not given much in the way of resources, and the production looks rather undernourished (with a seriously underpopulated town plaza, for example). While she's tried to flesh out the fragment we have (giving a back story to nearly everyone on stage), I don't think hers is an entirely satisfactory concept; and, in particular, the opening cafe scene with the flamenco guitar and singer she added felt both static and flat to me.
While Diana Cuni and Amy Watson are both good Bournonville dancers, the placement of the iconic mirror dance dulls its impact. I found Marcin Kupinski as flat as the opening scene; while the Danes are generally great actors, he seems to me a cipher--I've yet to see any inflection, let alone convincing acting, from him. Alexander Staeger I thought did better.

I still remember Ib Andersen's beautiful performance (with Mette-Ida Kirk) in Kermesse, and his production is a beauty--the best Bournonville restaging of Hubbe's tenure, to be sure, but I'd go back far longer than that. This is a rich ballet, with some beautiful choreography, lots of roles, lots of humor, and most of all, one imbued with joy, Andersen has given us all that in a loving, brilliantly-paced and textured production that never flags. (Yes, and there's religion, too, take that, Mr. Hubbe!) Gorgeous costumes by Jerome Kaplan that look like they stepped off the walls of the Riijksmuseum; if the set for the first and fourth scene doesn't quite do justice to the glory that is Bruges, I'm not sure anything could, and certainly the sets are lovely.
As for the dancing, Andersen chose for his second cast leads two 19 year olds, Stephanie Chen Gundorph and Andreas Kaas; Gundorph, in particular, is a real find, with lovely line and phrasing and great lightness of movement. Here was a pas de deux stripped of the coyness (and even archness) we see so often when it's performed at galas--these were two young people in love, dancing directly, unaffectedly and beautifully, with the occasional almost shy look from Gundorph to her father as if to say, "Is this okay with you?" Andersen's first cast (which I saw second) was the also-very-young Ida Praetorious and Alban Lendorf--he danced glorously, but I thought her just a bit more studied than Gundorph.
Very, very fine supporting performances in both casts. I loved both high-flying Adrians (Benjamin Buza and Jonathan Chmelensky) and adorably comic Geerts (Nikolaj Hansen and Jon Axel Fransson). Lots of comedy from a long list of others, including Gitte Lindstrom, Eva Kloborg, Lis Jeppesen, and Astrid Elbo. And very find dancing indeed from Luke Schaufuss in the second cast, who had impressed me as a student when a group from the school performed at the Kennedy Center.
I've been told more than once that the Danes don't come to Bournonville, and I'm sorry to report that there were many empty seats at the two performances I attended (I also heard that the premiere was lightly attended). What a pity that such a national treasure should be so underappreciated, but as long as there are productions like this one to see, I'll be over there appreciating my eyes out.

[haydn]

Thanks for this review about the Royal Danish Ballet, voyageur.


On peut trouver un album-photo très fourni de ce spectacle sur le site du Ballet Royal du Danemark :

http://kglteater.dk/whats-on/performances/season-2012-2013/ballet/la-ventana---kermessen-i-brugge


Apparemment, la production de la Ventana n'a que peu changé? En revanche, il semble que pour La Kermesse à Bruges, le Ballet Royal du Danemark ait entièrement refait les costumes et les décors, pour en revenir - et c'est une heureuse initiative - à quelque chose de plus classique et réaliste que ce qui avait été présenté au Festival Bournonville de 2005, avec une scénographie exagérément stylisée.

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[voyageur]

I think the Ventana costumes were largely unchanged (though the Senor's looked new)--the decor I think is. I was told there was little money for this work (presumably it all went to the Kermesse).
I never saw the 2005 Kermesse production (I was at that year's Bournonville Festival for only a few days), but based on what I've heard, I don't much regret missing it.

[sophia]

The opening scene of La Ventana was wonderful as I remember. Two dancers were facing each other on both sides of a golden frame, doing the same steps, thus creating the illusion of a mirror on the stage. It's funny because they used more or less the same trick in D'Ores et déjà, a ballet mixing baroque and contemporary style created recently for the POB school. Did it disappear in this new production?


Eva Kloborg et Mette Hønningen dans la danse du miroir de La Ventana, 1979
© Photo : John R. Johnsen
http://www.bournonville.com/bournonville31.html

[voyageur]

Your recollection, Sophia, is consistent with mine. The mirror dance is still there, but it now follows a new opening scene in a cafe with guitarist, singer, tourist, an unhappy Senor, and eventually the pas de trois team. And it's staged fairly far back on the stage, so feels a bit lost.

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[sophia]

Un portrait d'un Français au Danemark, réalisé à l'initiative de l'Ambassade de France :

Jonathan Chmelensky, soliste au Ballet Royal, passé par le Conservatoire de Paris et l'Ecole du Ballet de Cuba.

[sophia]

Gregory Dean a été nommé hier principal à l'issue d'une représentation de Casse-noisette.

[sophia]

Une répétition de Manon de Kenneth MacMillan est diffusée ce soir, à 20h, en direct et en streaming : http://kglteater.dk/live

[sophia]

L'école du Ballet Royal du Danemark lance pour la première fois son stage d'été de trois semaines. Il aura lieu du 7 au 26 juillet.

http://kglteater.dk/about-us/rdb-summerschool