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The Royal Danish Ballet (Danish: Den Kongelige Ballet) is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark. It is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world and originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded.
Aage Thordal-Christensen (born October 30, 1965) is a Danish dancer, choreographer and ballet director. Thordal-Christensen and his wife Colleen Neary are founding directors of Los Angeles Ballet. He has directed the ballet since 2006. [1] Thordal-Christensen was the artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet 1999-2002. [1] [2]
Royal Danish Ballet dancers (1 C, 47 P) Pages in category "Royal Danish Ballet" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect ...
In 1771, the first formalised ballet school at the Royal Danish Theater was founded by the French dancer and royal court dancing-master Pierre Laurent. The school was run on a rather humble scale with Laurent teaching six to eight pupils for two hours every day in the unheated vestibule of the Court Theater at Christiansborg Palace.
Royal Danish Ballet principal dancers (23 P) Pages in category "Royal Danish Ballet dancers" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
Thomas Lund (born September 13, 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the head master of The Royal Danish School of Ballet in Copenhagen. Lund admitted to The Royal Danish School of Ballet in 1986 aged 11. He became apprentice in 1991, member of the corps de ballet of The Royal Danish Ballet in 1993, soloist in 1996 and was appointed principal dancer ...
Kronstam dominated the Royal Danish Ballet's repertory for more than two decades, dancing over 120 roles, many of which were created, such as the role of Romeo in Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet (1955), the Husband in John Cranko's Secrets (1956), Nilas in Birgit Cullberg's Moon Reindeer (1958), and the Prince in Flemming Flindt's The ...
Her mother is a former dancer with the Hamburg Ballet who later became a doctor. Her father is an economist. She has two younger brothers who also dance. She started dancing at age 3 and auditioned the join the Royal Danish Ballet School when she was 8. She trained there from 2002 to 2010. During her training, she had danced with Royal Danish ...