Ballet performances

A ballet evening in two acts, with the first act comprising a new ballet by the award-winning choreographer Robert Thomsen. The ballet is called Speak-easy and follows four couples out one evening in an underground nightclub in the middle of the 1920s Prohibition era in USA.

We encounter love, friendship, jealousy, and desire as the eight dancers throw themselves into wild choreography that will blend classical ballet with jazz and show dance – a celebration that will spark!

The second part opens in a pure classical style with a small pas de trois for three girls in Bournonville's famous steps, staged by the world-renowned Bournonville expert Dinna Bjørn. It is pure dance joy and beautiful aesthetics – in short, pure pleasure to behold.

The evening concludes with the renowned Czech choreographer Petr Zuska's wonderfully funny Maria’s Dream, which is about one of the world's first ballet stars, Maria Taglioni (1804–1884), a paragon of romantic ballet and the first ballerina to dance on pointe. She is best known for being the first ballerina to dance the lead in La Sylphide at the Paris Opera in 1832. This ballet focuses on Maria's more fragile and artistic side, where she dreams herself into a park where four men are feeding swans, and where she suddenly joins them.

The ballet is full of crazy humour, when the four men suddenly find themselves in the middle of a classical ballet wearing tutus!

The ballet from 2001 has been a great success worldwide – and Petr Zuska has looked at it with entirely new eyes, making it appear fresh and specially made for our dancers.

A ballet evening that shows classical ballet can be not only graceful – but also enriched with plenty of humour.