The Bournonville Summer Academy 2015
In partnership with Tivoli Ballet School, The Bournonville Academy offers an exclusive seminar based solely on the Bournonville technique and repertoire with exceptional teachers who are particularly attached to the work of August Bournonville.
The Bournonville Academy is held at Tivoli, Copenhagen and for Peter Bo Bendixen, Artistic Director of Ballet in Tivoli, and Niels Balle, Director of Tivoli Ballet School, it is an honor to host a special event like the Bournonville Summer Academy.
Date and Location
Monday the 27th of July to Saturday the 1st of August 2015
Tivoli Ballet School, Tivoli, Vesterbrogade 3, 1630 Copenhagen, Denmark
Participants
Classes are open to professional and pre-professional dancers from the age of 16. A special course is offered for young dancers 14 – 16 years of age.
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Program
09:00 09:45 Breakfast
09:45 11:30 Class
11:30 11:45 Break
11:45 13:30 Bournonville repertoire
13:30 13:45 Break
13:45 14:30 Lunch (Obligatory for all and with the participation of tutors)
14:30 15:45 Mime
15:45 16:00 Break
16:00 17:00 Lectures/film
In order to show the results of the week’s work there will be a performance on the last day at the Peacock Theatre in Tivoli, where all involved in the Academy will participate.
Admission
Students must have a strong classical ballet technique.
Fee
6 days of tuition including last day performance at the Peacock Theatre. All 6 days meals consisting of light breakfast and lunch: Total price € 400
Registration
For full registration and instructions of payment, please follow this guide:
It is necessary that the dancers are healthy for this kind of technical dance in order to prevent injuries.
General information
On arrival everyone will receive a welcome folder with necessary information about Tivoli, the locations, the city and of course the seminar. Copenhagen has various opportunities of accommodation and Tivoli Ballet School will gladly convey on request.
Teachers
FRANK ANDERSEN
Co-Director, Bournonville Academy. Artistic Director, Royal Danish Ballet 1985-1994 and 2002-2008. Artistic Director, Royal Swedish Ballet 1995-1999. Professor of Dance Academy in Beijing.
DINNA BJORN
Co-Director, Bournonville Academy. Artistic Director, Norwegian National Ballet 1990-2002. Artistic Director, Finnish National Ballet 2001-2008, international guest teacher.
EVA KLOBORG
Character dancer, Royal Danish Ballet and international guest teacher.
ANNE MARIE VESSEL SCHLÜTER
Ballet Mistress, Royal Danish Ballet and international guest teacher. Director, Royal Danish Ballet School 1988-2006.
August Bournonville (1805-1879)
August Bournonville who was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a French dancer and ballet teacher living in exile in Denmark, studied ballet with his father in Copenhagen before completing his training in Paris with Pierre Gardel and Auguste Vestris. He joined the Paris Opera in 1826, but left France in 1830 to become a principal at the Royal Danish Ballet and succeeded his father as a ballet master, a post that he held until 1877.
Throughout his life he supported the lightness, the elegance and the phrasing of the French balletic style. The style that he taught and that survived him thanks to an uninterrupted tradition. The author of around fifty ballets essentially resting on a harmonious and happy vision of life, Bournonville, in spite of the way ballet changed during his lifetime, as testified by the “romantic ballet”, gave equal importance to male and female dancers. That was an esthetic measure but a social one as well since it enabled the Danish school to train great male dancers.
Tivoli Ballet School and The Bournonville Academy will give the opportunity to dance students and professional dancers to be initiated to the style and the repertory of the choreographer whose place in the history of Danish and international ballet is both special and fundamental.