Royal Danish Ballet school

The Royal Danish Ballet School is a ballet school that trains dancers for the Royal Danish Ballet. It was founded in the 1770s.

Beginnings

In 1771, the first formalised ballet school at the Royal Danish Theater was founded by the French dancer and royal court dancing-master Pierre Laurent. The school was run on a rather humble scale with Laurent teaching six to eight pupils for two hours every day in the unheated vestibule of the Court Theater at Christiansborg Palace. But Laurent's school soon lost its dance lesson monopoly at the Royal Danish Theater. In 1775, the Italian dancer, choreographer, and teacher Vincenzo Galeotti was engaged as ballet master. Galeotti, too, felt the need to establish a school of his own, and for some time the two schools existed side by side.

References

External links

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Royal Danish Theatre
Bournonville website
Photoblog by David Amzallag
Guide to the Royal Danish Ballet Photograph Album on the Premiere of Giselle. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Archival footage of the Royal Danish Ballet performing Konservatoriet at Jacob's Pillow, July 1955

Schools of professional ballet

Europe	Académie Royale de Danse Royal Danish Ballet school Elmhurst School for Dance English National Ballet School John Cranko Schule La Scala Theatre Ballet School Lviv State Choreographic School Moscow State Academy of Choreography Perm State Choreographic College Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance Royal Ballet School Royal Swedish Ballet School Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

Americas	Canada's National Ballet School Cuban National Ballet School Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School Pacific Northwest Ballet School Royal Winnipeg Ballet School San Francisco Ballet School School of American Ballet

Other	Cairo Opera Ballet Company Higher Institute of Ballet Australian Ballet School Beijing Dance Academy Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts The Music and Ballet School of Baghdad

Coordinates: 55°40′47″N 12°35′10″E / 55.6796°N 12.5860°E / 55.6796; 12.5860

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