Joan

So sadly, he was a greate ballet teacher and mentor for so many....

The names of the 11 dancers, who are going to leave the RDB have now been announced in Politiken:

Article (I couldn't find out making it appear in English translation, but maybe you can help yourself to a google-translation)

I can't help feeling very sad today, and I feel very sorry for the seven dancers, who are leaving the company against their own free will, many of whom I remember vividly from many fine performances during the years.

It is so sad Anne....Hopefully they will manage to come through this, but it will be difficult to find another job as a dancer in Denmark..

It is dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet....from their Paris ballet tour last week

The RDB website has recently been updated to show the company list for 2011/12.

Checking against last year's list, it looks as if only one dancer - Maria Stokholm (corps de ballet) - has left the company.

Two new aspirants have been taken on to join the existing 11 - Louise Brorsen and Sebastian Haynes, who had the leading roles in the RDB School's Nijinsky show last season.

And one new dancer has joined the corps de ballet: Alexander Bozinoff, a Canadian who trained at the NBoC school and in Stuttgart and last season was an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet. There's an enthusiastic mention of him, dancing James in a school performance, here.

Julie Valentin (corps the ballet) has also left the company.

I just love this new version, specially the scenografi and cant get enough of it:) I have seen the ballet four times now and just love this version!

I must say, that I aggre with the reviewers, on something - the pas de sept should not have a dancing Birthe - that is a shame,

but everything else is in my opinion, just greate.

The Royal Danish Ballet is on twitter....they have allready posted something.

This blog will be updated and written from May 20th. It will contain photos, videos and descriptions of the tour to the US. The author is the PR Manager of the company, but some of the dancers will be guest-bloggers as well.

see this link:

http://rdballet.blogspot.com/?spref=fb

Have fun

Joan

One of the least surprising promotions ever - Alban Lendorf has just been named the RDB's latest solodanser.

Congratulations to Alban and the royal danish ballet for given this wonderfull talented dancer.

It was a great evening with a perfect ending.....

Here is the word from Nikolaj Hübbe to Marcin....

Artistic director, Nikolaj Hübbe:

“Marcin Kupinsky is one of the most artistically cultivated and aristocratic male dancers fostered by the Royal Danish Ballet in years. He has the most beautiful, clean lines and proportions that render him into the role of ballet prince, perfectly easy and naturally so. With a focus in particular on the last two seasons, Marcin Kupinsky’s enviable technical improvements have allowed him to make a rare, artistic development of superb expression and maturity – a real Danseur Noble. I am truly happy and very proud to present a dancer of such calibre within the Royal Danish Ballet, because Marcin Kupinsky IS the very essence embodiment of classical ballet. On a personal note, Marcin Kupinsky is one of the most kind and agreeable humans I have ever had the pleasure of working with. With a fine mindfulness and a to-and-through amiable behaviour, he fully matches a human character as “a Prince among Men”.

Marcin Kupinski was born in Poland in January 1983 and received his training at the National Ballet School in Gdansk. He joined the Royal Danish Ballet in 2002, was promoted to soloist in 2010 and to principal dancer in 2011.

Among his most important principal parts at the Royal Danish Ballet is; Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Prince Albrecht in Giselle, James in La Sylphide, principal male in Etudes and Prince in The Nutcracker.

This summer Marcin Kupinski is going on tour to the US with the rest of the company.

Yesterday I saw "Dans to go" and after the performance I heard that this evening was Kristoffer Sakurais last performance.

He is no longer a balletdancer at the RDB.

I heard that he has stoppet dancing due to his many injuries.

It was surprising to me that they held the "difficult" conversations in English. I couldn't quite follow but I gather one of the students ended up in Hamburg? ( It was still a little confusing, not knowing the language.)

You are rigth Johanne went to Hamborg and she is very happy to be there.

Though I haven't seen a formal announcement, the RDB website today lists five former corps de ballet dancers as soloists:

Lena-Maria Gruber

Alexandra lo Sardo

J'aime Crandall

Gregory Dean

Alexander Staeger

No surprise for the two men, who've both already danced big leading roles; the three women haven't had quite that much exposure but all of them have showed up very well in soloist roles. Crandall also danced Aurora in the recent Sleeping Beauty and lo Sardo was an unexpected but very successful choice for the second movement in Symphony in C last season; Gruber stands out for her confidence and stylishness. It's good news for all of them.

Thank you Jane and congrats to all of them, but especially to Alexander Stæger, he should in my opinion have been a soloist already...

Does anybody know where the Royal Danish Ballet is going to perform when they are visiting New York City?

They'll be at the Koch Theatre (aka-NY State Theatre) June 14-19, 2011:

http://www.davidhkochtheater.org/events.html

This site also sold tickets when the Chinese group was at the Koch, so I'm guessing sales will be from this site for the Danish Ballet as well. I can't find any information on when tickets go on sale, other than "soon."

Thanks now I know where it is and then I can book the hotel nearby! Hopefully they will tell soon, when the sale for the tickets begin.

Does anybody know where the Royal Danish Ballet is going to perform when they are visiting New York City?

I cant find anything in the calender og elsewhere on the Internet.

I am going to N.Y. and want to se them there in June.

There is a new promotional video replying to Sleeping Beauty, they are showing it at danish television.

Link:

http://video.kglteater.dk/video/903117/tornerose-2010-trailer-2

Incredible! Danish television has just put up a page of information about various ballet topics and links to FIVE complete performances by the RDB:

La Sylphide from 1977

Napoli from 1985

The Lesson from 1975

Romeo and Juliet (Neumeier) from 1988

The Triumph of Death from 1973

Link: http://www.dr.dk/P2/tema/Ballettens+Verden/20101116164800.htm

Thank you Jane! I am a dane and havent seen it at all or heard about it!

You can se glimpses of costumes and sets from Sleeping Beauty in the blog from dramaturg sofie rask andersen

http://www.terpsichore.dk/magasinet.php?id=2&artikel=600&year=2010s

and there is some fotos in "blueballet - the almost all Royal Danish Ballet photography pages"

Thank you for the tips! I visited the Blueballet blog at once, but I couldn't find any pictures from Sleeping Beauty. Maybe they are among the deleted photos - there has apparently been a break down of the platform.

Hi Anne

I saw the pictures at their facebook, and I checked the bluballet blog ans colud see that the fotos was not there. I believe the blog is under update or something. You can see the pictures at facebook.

You can se glimpses of costumes and sets from Sleeping Beauty in the blog from dramaturg sofie rask andersen

http://www.terpsichore.dk/magasinet.php?id=2&artikel=600&year=2010s

and there is some fotos in "blueballet - the almost all Royal Danish Ballet photography pages"

Welcome to Ballet talk, Joan. It is great to have another Dane amongst us! I hope you will join the discussions and smalltalks in this little corner of Ballet talk belonging to the RDB.

thank you Anne, I am so happy to find this site, as ballet is something that I love soo much. I hope that I will be able to join the discussion, and bring some to it.

Thank you, Anne. And I also hadn't known that Martins's Swan Lake was made for RDB. I started hearing about it after years of being totally out of the balletgoing loop--and it never occurred to me that Martins would be making a large work for any company except NYCB, even if RDB is his old home. Seeing it at RDB might make it seem totally different from seeing it at NYCBallet, where the emphasis has always been on a lot of energy and maybe even boisterousness (all the years of complaints about sloppiness having also always had to do with not enough rehearsal time.) Alexandra got me started on an interest in Bournonville, which I couldn't really fathom at first, and with each new report, I realize I have to eventually schedule Copenhagen during a season, as I'm convinced RDB is a rare, unique world of its own. Someone mentioned they'd be touring, including New York, which means I'll see them, but eventually I want to see that new opera house, which does sound elegant.

Jane mentioned the old Royal Theater, and so that was still being used at least in 1996. Is it still operative, and what is presented there now? I know nothing of Danish theater, and little about Swedish, a little here and there about the latter (have at least read 'Miss Julie'), probably mostly from Ingmar Bergman movies.

Hi

The old stage is the home for the royal danish ballet snd they normally has one production at the new Opera houce which of cource is the home for the Royal Danish Opera.

The next performance at the old stage will be sleeping beauty. Christopher Wheeldon, is creating a completely new version of the ballet for the royal danish ballet.

French set designer Jérôme Kaplan is the creator of both the set and costume design for this production.

Principal Dancer Caroline Cavallo will retire from the Royal Danish Ballet following a 21-year career with the Company. She will dance her final performance in the role of Aurora in Sleeping Beauty on Wednesday evening, December 15th, 2010.

Thank you rg for answering so fast

What does it means when a dancers body is stateque?

What does it means when a dancer is good at three dimensional dancing?

David Amzallag has added some photos of two of the new aspirants - Benita Bünger and Ida Praetorius - to his photoblog pages. (There are also some nice shots of Bojesen and Lendorf and of Carling Talcott, all in Swan Lake, on adjacent pages.)

On facebook there is a groupe called

blueballet - the almost all Royal Danish Ballet photography page

Here you can see a lot of the pictures from david amzallag

Do you know, if Tara Schaufuss is a member of the famous family too?

Yes, she's the younger of Peter Schaufuss's two daughters from his marriage to Janette Mulligan who was a dancer with English National Ballet.

Are you really sure about that?!

On her CV it says that she´s from Brisbane, Australia

I know for sure, that she is the daugther of Peter Schaufuss