Staging Bournonville at home and abroad: Tobi Tobias, with Dinna Bjorn and Frank Anderson

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Dancer Dinna Bjorn is an authority on the August Bournonville style, which she teaches on several continents, while Frank Andersen is artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet who also masterminded the Third Bournonville Festival in 2005. Bjorn and Andersen discuss the advantages and the difficulties of staging Bournonville at home and abroad.

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The Bournonville Schools: A new look: A panel with Erik Aschengreen, Dinna Bjorn, Thomas Lund, Anne Marie Vessel Schluter, and Flemming Ryberg

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A panel of teachers, dancers and producers involved in a DVD production of the Bournonville School, which includes the Bournonville Barre, characteristics, positions, steps, and combinations, discuss the aim of such a production and reflect on the difficulties they faced in the process.

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Bournonville in the twenty-first century: A panel with Monna Dithmer, Frank Andersen, Anne Middelboe Christensen, Nikolaj Hubbe, Anna Kisselgoff, Thomas Lund, and Peter Schaufuss

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A panel of dancers, directors, choreographers and critics discusses the tradition of August Bournonville, how to keep it alive and use their collective knowledge and experience to move Bournonville into the 21st century.

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