In Akram Khan’s new full-length work for Royal Danish Ballet, Lady Macbeth is a pure-intentioned heroine. By Roslyn Sulcas After years focused on international repertory and new work, the company is ...

The Royal Danish Theatre will present “The Nutcracker” at the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen this winter, with performances ...

Unlike musical scores or theatrical plays, ballets are rarely, if ever, written down. The lineage of the longest-lived classics can be traced through dancers who have shared their knowledge of pivotal ...

Each year, at the end of the Royal Theatre season in Copenhagen, auditions are held for the ballet school. Children, for the most part between the ages of eight and eleven, come to the school for the ...

There are cities where art travels through, and cities where it stops. Last week, Astana was one of the latter. For the first time, the Royal Danish Theatre, one of Europe’s oldest and most respected ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet. Both his ...

"I don't do anything," says Nikolaj Hübbe, a former principal dancer at the New York City Ballet and current artistic director of Copenhagen's Royal Danish Ballet, when asked if he still joins in ...

When Flemming Flindt was named director of the Royal Danish Ballet a year ago, the ballet world was caught flatfooted. At 29, he was not only one of the youngest dancers ever to head a major ballet ...