By Jeannette Andersen Every choreographic work is an intricate amalgam of many elements combined to evoke feelings and thoughts, perhaps telling stories, perhaps abstract. The choreographer and the set, costume and lighting designers work with forms and lines in space and time, choosing their material with care; for the choreographer, that means the dancers, with
By Rebecca Hope Terry This can’t be happening, I said to myself as I searched, again, all the compartments of my dance-bag. I still couldn’t find my contact lenses for rehearsal. I asked the choreographer if I could wear my glasses. “No.” For a myopic dancer, dancing without glasses can be a fascinating experience. An
By Anne-Marie Elmby After 14 month’s delay, the Royal Danish Ballet finally performed John Neumeier’s Mahler’s 3rd Symphony (1975) at Operaen, the largest stage of the Royal Danish Theatre, on May 19. COVID restrictions meant there was a limited-capacity audience and the compromise of the Royal Danish Orchestra playing live from a studio, transmitted to