CharlieH Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 A contingent from the RDB will perform in June 20-24 at Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Becket, Massachusets (Berkshires area). https://www.jacobspillow.org/events/royal-danish-ballet/ How difficult is it to get there from NYC? Any direct busses...or is driving the only way to go? Any recommended lodging options? Thanks for any travel hints! Link to comment
sandik Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 I don't remember off the top of my head -- when was their first appearance at the Pillow? Link to comment
Jane Simpson Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 1955 - the link in the first post links to a short clip from that visit, with Mona Vangsaa and Stanley Williams dancing a snippet from Konservatoriet. Link to comment
sandik Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 Help! I'm being sucked into the vortext that is the Jacob's Pillow video archive... Link to comment
CharlieH Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 The RDB dancers’ appearances at Jacob’s Pillow begin this Wednesday. https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/love-affair-between-dance-royal-danish-ballet-and-jacobs-pillow,542329 Link to comment
FPF Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 On 3/31/2018 at 1:13 PM, CharlieH said: A contingent from the RDB will perform in June 20-24 at Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Becket, Massachusets (Berkshires area). https://www.jacobspillow.org/events/royal-danish-ballet/ How difficult is it to get there from NYC? Any direct busses...or is driving the only way to go? Any recommended lodging options? Thanks for any travel hints! I realize that this is too late forthe RDB, but if you're still interested in going to the Pillow for future performances, their webpage mentions some travel options: https://www.jacobspillow.org/visit/directions-travel/. Link to comment
FPF Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I saw the RDB Saturday matinee on June 23rd. The program format was unbalanced, with a short ballet and excepts from 5 others before the intermission and the Bournonville's Napoli Tarantella by itself afterwards. The pas de sept from A Folk Tale was the opener. The dancers normally portray trolls, but here were in plain red costumes. Next was the shortDvorak pas de deux by Lander. This was followed by a pas de deux between James and the Sylph from La Sylphide, featuring Amy Watson as the sylph and Marcin Kupinski as James. This was one of the highlights, due to Watson's charming sylph. The white and black swan pas de deux were next, with the black swan (Holly Jean Dorger with Jonathan Chmelensky) ) a bit vulgar, but easily able to handle the technical challenges. I think that the white swan is not that effective as a showpiece without the corps de ballet behind, but the dancers (Kizzy Matiakis and Andreas Kaas) were fine. More Bournonville followed, with a pas de deux from Kermesse in Bruges featuring Ida Praetorius and Andreas Kaas, both charming. Finally, the first "half" ended with the 2nd act pas de deux from Giselle. Again, the dancers, J'Aime Crandall and Meirambek Nazargozhayev, were excellent, but I don't find this to be dramatically effective with out the wilis and Myrtha. The Tarantella from Napoli provided the fun grand finale. Nikolaj Hubbe was interviewed post-peformance. He spoke about wanting to show off the diversity of the company's diverse repertory, not just the Bournonville. And he was very patient when questioned by an audience member about the Royal Ballet (UK) rather than the RDB. The talk is available on the Jacob's Pillow youtube channel (with a bit of performance footage interspersed). Link to comment
Drew Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 (edited) Putting excerpt programs together is always rather tricky I suppose, but overall this sounds very enjoyable... It has been seventeen years (!) since I have seen dancers from the RDB perform. (Assuming Lendorf with ABT in Whipped Cream doesn’t count.) Edited August 4, 2018 by Drew Typo Link to comment
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