danciegirlmaria

It was quite an ordeal! My friend saw it, she was going off stage and caught her foot and strained the tendons. Johan Kobborg, who has been her partner, had to dance with some unusually tall girls because she's injured! They had to bring in another dancer, to continue,(who'd been at home painting her kitchen, and therefore still had white paint on her hands)

It was unlucky too that a week before that in the final pas de deux in Manon, Alina and Johan misjudged the timeing and Johan didn't make it accross the stage t catch her- she was soooo trusting, she literally fell on her face! The trickle of blood rolling down her chin certainly gave and original and effective touch to the final 'death'!

Hopefully she's forgiven him!

I know, im very excited i'm going to see manon and the triple bill at Kgl. and NYCB at Tivoli within the three few weeks just before i return to London!

I'm not sure if this belongs here- so please move it if appropriate!

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Johan Kobborg (dancer with the Royal ballet) is putting together four nights at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th at 7.45pm.

It is intitled 'Out of Denmark'. The evening's programme includes one of Flindt's The Lesson and Bournonville's Napoli ACT III, plus a varied series of duets.

Dancers incl. Johan Kobborg, Alina Cojocaru, Zenaida Yanowksy and Jamie Tapper

You can read more at:

https://www.rfh.org.uk/main/series/138.html...ex&month=&week=

Looks like its going to be great, i'm hoping that Alina will be fully recoverd as she is ment to be dancing too!

Im going three of the four nights, I cant go on opening night - have to teach till 7.30

I don't think they have put Rose Gad in Manon, I agree she would be interesting to see!

I have a really interestion copy of a program shown in DK in the early 90's (i think)- where they followed 2 groups of auditionees from the RDB school (from 1972 and 1973- something in that direction anyway) and Silja Schandorff, Peter Bo Bendixen, Mette Bødtcher and Vincent van Weber (amongst others) are all in it!

Really interesting stuff, but you must have seen it

PS. Just like to add that i (finally) got round to finshing reading your book. I really could afford to buy it (am poor student) so had to wait for the RAD library to get it!!

Great stuff, hard to say anything original about i suppose, but thanks for the detailed insight!!

That was really great fun!

I'm George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky (no, please, no more rotton eggs!) An Interesting mix!! Very amusing! Top job, well done!

I'm going to try and see Silja Schandorff and Le Riche on either 25th or 27th (im a big Silja Schandorff fan!) But tickets don't go on sale till monday, 11th aug!

But there's a 'Ballet på Kastellet' thing in Copenhagen on the 16th, where there will be excerpts of the various ballets fron season 03/04 - and it's free!!

Favorite dancers are such a personal thing, But my fav is Johan Kobborg of the Royal Ballet. Apart from being an amazing dancer and mime, theres something (in my eyes at least) that hits really deep down! I saw this one performance of Manon with him and Alina C, and my god .............. i cant describe how abosolutly in touch with his character he was. AMAZING!!! :huepfen: and :sweating: and and and :speechless: and all at once.

There are no real surprises in the promotions esp. :

Mara Galeazzi is promoted to Principal....Deirdre Chapman and Isabel McMeekan are promoted to First Soloists

These, along with Lauren Cuthbertsen, have been comimg for a while, you could see it in last year's (esp. towrds the end of the season) casting....

All these dancers had 'better' and higher profile roles that before....

Could i just touch on something from the artical from the Telegraph? Even if the audience at the royal opera house wanted to throw flowers (as in days gone by and for Alina and Johan i would!) they'd have to be either sitting one of the boxes closest to the stage in which case they'd have seen very little of the performance anyway or if you sit anywhere else you'd have the be an pro shotputter to get the flowers on the the stage and not on an unsuspecting orcestra member!!

I must say, i most admire a 'clean' dancer, with a layerd mime/ acting quality! But the way a man appers on stage also has a lot to with the person he's dancing with not only visually (eg. height relationship) but also engagement with their partner (a real bond) but that might just be me..............

I'd love to- it would be a pleasure ;)

(Please call me maria- what long job typing danciegirlmaria must be.......)

I, admitidly, do see the Royal ballet quite regularly. I try to see at every production at least twice. I always see Johan Kobborg ( ) and alina c. and I usually choose a another cast the 2nd time around.

I'm quite glad that RB have gone away for the summer because i'm in denmark for july and aug, and thankfully wount miss anything! In fact i'll get to see royal danish ballet twice and NYCB at tivoli.

Culture and expectation differences are certainly put to the test when a touring ´forgien' company performs something native to that country. I also read the ballet.co tread- found it hard to make head nor tale of it- due to the translation problems- but the vibe wasn't great from that either.

It's such a shame that the moscow audience don't seem to have taken t the royal, i don't know how many people see them regulaurly (as ballet talk seems to have a primarily US subscribtion) but I think there fab and of course there are good and bad things about the performances and dancers but I' m just at how they can't see more of the good things........

Am quite stunned and dissappointed by the -ive vibe coming from russia about the RB. The artical in the moscow times had little nice to say what so ever!

Does anyone have any information or know what the Royal Ballet are up to/ will be up to during there stay in Russia?

Does anyone know if the divine picture of Johan and Alina in the Romeo and Juliet programme can be found any where else, eg. online or to buy? I know it was taken by Bill cooper but can't get much further than that........

I just think it's gorgeous- such a shame she was injured....... because her partnership with Johan is so perfect.

Did anyone see them in Manon? I was unfortunate enough to see the one where she ended flat on her face but non the less in the first Act when Mr. GM see's Manon for the first time, the look on his face he was incredible.......he was 110% in love with her from the moment he sees her......

Sorry that turned out to be a little longer than I had planned, I can't help but get carried away when I talk about those two

The angle i'm going for in my dissertation is something like:

How has Denmark produced (over the years) such technically brilliant male dancers (who are internationally recognised), considering the size and population of the country?

This is with particular reference to dancers such as:

Johan Kobborg (Royal Ballet, London)

Ib Anderson (NYCB)

Peter Martins (NYCB- dancer then dir.)

Nikolaj Hubbe (NYCB)

Adan Luders (NYCB)

Helgi Tomasson (San Fran)

Erik Bruhn

Flemming Flint (dancer then choregrapher)

Henning Kronstam (although he never left he was still well known esp. in USA- but you know alot more about that than I do.

)

I'm currently reserching for my dissertation and would greatly appreciate any help...:

I was just wondering if anyone out there has any opinions of what in the training system in denmark creates such amazing (and internationally renouned) male dancers- but less strong female dancers??

It could be said that it is eaiser for the average audience, who know little of ballet history, to comperhend the approved Sleeping B story, that the historical context of a littleused ballet. It just goes full circle: theatre think audience woun't accept- so is lhardly used- which mens no one knows about it- which means audience find it hard to accept........

I find myself constanly defending Bournonville ballets. But it's probably a good thibk as it makes me go and read up to make my defence better each time. I feel I have to defend my heratige (dispite being only half danish)- a strange obligation to my motherland!

I had a similar 'racism' discussion with a groups of friends (also in the ballet world) about 'Far from Danmark'. In the end that was my basic argument that none of the others could argue against. In that time they it wasn't the same socio-political crime as it is today.

Could i ask which 'producer'? - or is that a little cheeky?

I wonder how they relate the story to the children?

I didn't think that the Kgl. ballet were "making a statement"!

Anyway any revival/ reconstruction is always great for the audiences and the kgl. itself- there should be as many ballets 'alive' in the rep as possible!

Very interesting that abdallah has been chosen to reappear in the rep', with it being set in Iraq and all!

Though it is a lovely ballet, I reconstructed on of the solos from Act 3 as part of my Benesh Notation exam, tricky stuff!!

I thought to start this thread, to help with the dissertation i'm hoping to write on Bournonville......i haven't quite narrowed it down any further as to which aspect of bournonville i will focus. Maybe something will arise here..............?

Anyone who wants to discuss bournonvile; technique, style, dancers, ballets, etc.......

Oh what a dancer and all round performer!!

If you like him too then join my group at:

www.groups.yahoo.com/group/kobborg_johan/