Dancer

This season, Giant Steps presents two of George Balanchine’s most famous works, Apollo and The Four Temperaments. And then Christopher Wheeldon takes up the baton with the ballet Corybantic Games.

Giant Steps

Royal Danish Opera

Experience royal solo dancer ASTRID GRARUP ELBO as she, in her first solo work as a choreographer and dancer, confronts the stereotypes and female roles she is normally expected to dance, and attempts to break out of the objectification she has spent her entire life trying to fit into.

Ob(e)ject

Blaagaard Teater

Grace and Drama Set to Tchaikovsky’s Iconic Music.

Nothing surpasses the grandeur of Swan Lake. The poignant story of the impossible love between a melancholic prince and the most beautiful of birds continues to resonate deeply with audiences.

The swan, one of nature’s most captivating creatures, embodies grace and feminine beauty, yet also possesses a majestic presence as it glides across the water. The late 19th-century inspiration to have ballerinas, with their inherent elegance, portray swans in Swan Lake was a stroke of genius. The young, introspective Prince Siegfried falls in love with the delicate Swan Princess, Odette, but is also drawn to her double, Odile. One represents purity and poetry; the other, seduction and deceit.

Swan Lake

Look forward to Vivi Flindt's instruction by Flemming FlindtsONE TIME, with Alessandro Sousa Pereira's STOL – A  MATTER OF TRUSTBallet Teatro Guaira, which also returns with last year's success,CASTELO, and finallyTHE YOUNG MAN AND DEATH, who plays for the last time onBellevue Theatre.

Summer Ballet Marathon

Bellevue Theater

Two Bournonville Ballets—A Celebration of Drama, Romance, and Joy.

La Ventana (“The Window”) and The Kermesse in Bruges are two vastly different ballets by August Bournonville, yet together they demonstrate his remarkable ability to portray drama, romance, comedy, and poetry.

La Ventana and The Kermesse in Bruges

Bellevue Theatre and Ordrup Library invite you to a conversation between solo dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet, Astrid Elbo, and ballet expert and author Alexander Meinertz.

A conversation about ballet

Harmony and peace are quintessential to Bournonville's ballets, but beneath the idyll of A Folk Tale, there lurks an undercurrent that simmers, bubbles and vibrates with life.

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A Folk Tale

Copenhagen Opera House

George Balanchine is one of the greatest and most innovative choreographers ever to have lived. The trio of ballets featured in the performance "Giant Steps" demonstrates precisely why this is the case.

The Royal Playhouse and The Old Stage

The Royal Danish Ballet is inseparably bound to the legacy of August Bournonville. Experience four of his classical ballets in one evening as we open the season in tribute to the master and his enduring art.

Dancer

Astrid Elbo

Events

Upcoming events

Aug 29 - Sep 17, 2026

To Joy · Det Kongelige Teater

Past events

May 29 - Jun 5, 2026

Giant Steps · Det Kongelige Teater

17 - 21 Feb, 2026

Ob(e)ject · Blaagaard Teater

Future and recently performed repertoire

Odette / Odile in Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky

Det Kongelige Teater

Fru van Everdingen in La Ventana by Porras

Royal Danish Opera

Fru van Everdingen in The Kermesse in Bruges by Paulli

Royal Danish Opera

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