Bournonville, August

The King's ballet master: A biography of Denmark's August Bournonville

The Three Bournonville Barres (Bournonville Schools)

The beauty of Bournonville.(TECHNIQUE)(August Bournonville): An article from: Dance Magazine

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Title: The beauty of Bournonville.(TECHNIQUE)(August Bournonville)
Author: Peter Brandenhoff
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 81 Issue: 4 Page: 70(4)

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My Dearly Beloved Wife!: Letters From France And Italy 1841

In 1841 the great Danish choreographer and ballet-master, August Bournonville, made a six-months European journey that took him to France and - for the first time - to Italy. During this journey he kept a weekly correspondence with his wife, Helene, who had remained with their six children in Copenhagen. In these thirty-nine travel letters Bournonville describes in fine and vivid details his many personal and cultural encounters and theatre experiences abroad with a spontaneity of expression that is conspicuously absent from the majority of his other published writings. Bournonville here literally brims with vision, opinion and wit. The 1841 travel letters are here gathered in book form for the first time. They not only provide a great deal of factual information from this important European journey, but also reveal his fine, and sometimes even wild, sense of humour, which he clearly restrained or suppressed in his later, published autobiographical writings. Together these travel letters represent a fascinating and unique insight into his true artist's psyche, his professional career abroad, and his personal character as a man. Moreover, they reveal in fine detail how some of his most popular ballets were created and directly inspired from the strong impressions of art and nature that he had received during this, the perhaps most fortuitous of his many artistic journeys.

August Bournonville: Balletmesteren som genspejlede et arhundredes idealer og konflikter

My Dearly Beloved Wife: Letters from France and Italy, 1841.(Book Review): An article from: Dance Magazine

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Title: My Dearly Beloved Wife: Letters from France and Italy, 1841.(Book Review)
Author: Doris Hering
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 80 Issue: 1 Page: 196(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Bournonville and ballet technique;: Studies and comments on August Bournonville's Etudes choregraphiques, (A Dance Horizons republication, 39)

The distinctive style and technique of the dancers of the Royal Danish Ballet have always aroused great interest and enthusiasm in the world of ballet. Their special quality derives from the work of August Bournonville over a century ago. A great teacher and choreographer, his teaching and his ballets, such as La Sylphide, have remained unchanged through the years.

Erik Bruhn, indisputably one of the greatest dancers of the twentieth century, was trained in the Bournonville tradition, and in his appearances as guest artist in the USA, Russia and elsewhere he had the unique opportunity of comparing his training and technique with other methods. This interest impelled him to study anew Bournonville s principles as set down in his Études chorégraphiques, and in collaboration with Lillian Moore, the distinguished critic and dancer, he compiled what is modestly described as a book of studies and comments.

The authors emphasize that, In calling attention to Bournonville s Études chorégraphiques and his own teaching, we have not the slightest intention or desire to urge a new and different system of teaching upon the world... Our purpose here is much more modest. We simply want to discuss a few things which are sometimes neglected even in the best schools, and describe the ways they are taught in the Danish school where they are still remembered.

Bournonville Ballet Technique: Fifty Enchainements

Bournonville's London spring

My Theatre Life