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RDB’s Thomas Lund: Bournonville Forever

Gudrun Bojesen was crying so hard her entire body was shaking. Minutes before, her breathtaking Sylph had died a painful death and her James, Thomas Lund, had taken his last steps as a principal dancer...

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Nutcracker for the People

Ballet and popular culture have been enjoying an unusually close relationship in recent times. Following on the success of Natalie Portman’s highly neurotic and nail-biting ballerina in Darren...

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Ida Praetorius: Danish Ballet Star in the Making

Towards the end of Act 1 in John Neumeier’s Romeo & Juliet there is a scene where the star-crossed lovers meet properly – alone and unmasked – for the first time. It is always a lovely scene but,...

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New Movement Collective in NEST

Site-specific performances can be frustrating: if they’re not well constructed or if they give audiences too many paths to navigate, they can leave us feeling like we have taken a wrong turn somewhere...

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An Interview with Alban Lendorf

It’s the first interval at Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, hauntingly performed by the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. I’m queuing for a drink, and so is a young couple right in front of me. It seems to...

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A New Sylphide at RDB: An Interview with Nikolaj Hübbe

It seems fair to say that James, the young Scotsman of La Sylphide, has followed Nikolaj Hübbe faithfully throughout his career. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: James was Hübbe’s first leading...

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