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- In dance after dance, the 19th-century Danish choreographer August Bournonville took innocent joy as his subject and made it intoxicating. His ballets also contain despair, jealousy and satire, but he confined those things to acting. He expressed delight by means of dances, made especially in terms of pure classical ballet.
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The Bournonville dance knits the dancers on stage together, giving them the feeling that union is strength. The magic of Bournonville’s universe is that we, the audience, are invited to feel the same.
August Bournonville (born Aug. 21, 1805, Copenhagen, Den.—died Nov. 30, 1879, Copenhagen) was a dancer and choreographer who directed the Royal Danish Ballet for nearly 50 years and established the Danish style based on bravura dancing and expressive mime.
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August Bournonville (21 August 1805 – 30 November 1879) was a Danish ballet master and choreographer. He was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, née Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet .
Jun 17, 2016 · “In dancing Bournonville, the dancers often feel they spend more time in the air that on the floor.” Two things came together to create the Bournonville style. Firstly, as a young ballet student August (1805-1879) accompanied his ballet master father to Paris, then the centre of the ballet world.
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It is, as well, a manifestation of the joy that Bournonville ardently held was the prime motivation of dancing and the mood that dancing could best express. The restoration of harmony in the finale of a Bournonville ballet often takes the form of an exuberant communal dance.
Jan 15, 2015 · In dance after dance, the 19th-century Danish choreographer August Bournonville took innocent joy as his subject and made it intoxicating. His ballets also contain despair, jealousy and...
Humanity and joie de vivre rather than simple technical brilliance characterized Bournonville's conception of the classical Danish dancer. In terms of their subject matter, Bournonville's ballets were influenced by his years in Paris and his contact with the emerging Romantic ballet.
