Thank you for the question, @frederikke.schmidt The quick answer is yes. Yes, it is hard work to be a ballet dancer! BUT if you love it, love it with your heart and soul, then it is worth every second of pain, every sacrifice, every drop of sweat and every tear. As a ballet dancer, you …
Thank you for the question, Clara. TRUTH: Nobody has everything. Nobody has the perfect body to be a ballet dancer because ballet wasn’t designed for our bodies. Ballet asks for turned out legs 100% of the time but we are built to walk with our legs parallel. Degrees of turn out will vary, people’s insteps …
Thank you for the question, @andreeaunicorn There are a few differences but truly not as many as you might think. In Denmark, about once every few months, the public is invited in to the Royal Theater to watch the ballet company take morning class on the stage for free, while they can enjoy a croissant …
Thank you for the question, @andreeaunicorn I use four main tools everyday. An elastic theraband, a bouncy ball cut in half, warm boots, and my make shift ankle warmers. Before I start ballet class in the morning I pull out my elastic theraband and I do at least 10 reps of pointing and flexing each …
Photo: What Dance Can Do Project Thank you for the question, tut4thewin! Awww… performing. Without a doubt, my most favorite thing to do. I love stepping out in to the lights and sharing an evening with an audience. Magic happens. I swear, there is magic in the air at a theater. It is just waiting …
Thank you for the question idataggaard! Yes! I will highlight three schools that I believe are very interesting and worth checking out, that are outside of Denmark. The School of American Ballet. aka SAB. Now, I might be a bit biased because this is the school that I attended for four years, year round. I …
Thanks for the fun question, buster_jensandersen! Pirouettes, pique turns, lame ducks, fouette turns, chaines, soutenu’s… I sure do love to turn! 🙂 There is something about that feeling of being so on balance that you can make the world spin around you, while you stay put! In my dreams I can turn 6, 7, 8 …
Corrections! Ahhhhh! There are days where you long to hear even just one and other days you wish they would stop telling you all your corrections. When I was quite young, taking ballet class, I couldn’t handle being corrected. I didn’t understand that corrections are given to help you improve. I only thought of them …
Thank you for the Question, cvisintin. Good Question. 🙂 I have so much respect for August Bournonville and for all of the ballets he created. Being at the Royal Danish Ballet, his home, you truly learn a lot about him, his style, and the love of the Bournonville tradition. My favorite Bournonville Ballet is, Napoli. …
Queen of Hearts from Wheeldon’s, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.