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 COVID-19 was already spreading around the world when, on March 6, the Danish government advised physical distancing and events with more than 1,000 people had to be cancelled or postponed. Copenhagen’s Royal Theatre, where the Royal Danish Ballet is based, continued performances with restricted admission; six days later, they cancelled everything. This
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