By Anne-Marie Elmby Once more, summer offered opportunity to stay in touch with dance while also enjoying the outdoors through Verdensballetten (World Ballet). The company opened its 15th tour around Denmark on July 12, in the garden of Sølyst, a 20-minute drive north of Copenhagen. Steven McRae, a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, again
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
By Anne-Marie Elmby In June, nine Royal Danish Ballet dancers travelled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, organized by Cultural Adventures Copenhagen, which was founded in 2017 by former dancers Morten Eggert and Christian Hammeken. In July, another group from the company visited the Joyce Theater in New York, a trip organized by Ulrik Birkkjær (now a