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August Bournonville's choreography, the special Bournonville style under different directors, is compared to a pillow, which has had several different pillowcases over the years. The Bournonville Pillow is a symbol of what the ballet-master gave to the Royal Danish Ballet, the tradition being the steps, the ballets, and the schools, but most especially a heritage of characters, the figures from Bournonville's ballets that are handed down from one generation of dancers to the next.
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The Third Bournonville Festival, held June 3-11, 2005, presented performances and exhibitions to gladden the hearts of the many loyal dance historians who attended the festival, but awareness of differences observed in the present choreography, compared with that seen at the 1979 and 1982, caused concern. It is a complex issue to decide whether these ballets be preserved intact as museum pieces or whether they need modification to meet the tastes of succeeding generations.
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Choreographer and director John Neumeier offers his opinion about what it is to tell a story in dance and how he accomplishes it. Neumeier, who works as guest director at the Royal Danish Ballet, offers an outsider's perspective of the company and its tradition of August Bournonville's work.
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