Kim Brandstrup
dänischer Tänzer und Choreograph
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Kim Brandstrup (* 9. Januar 1957 in Aarhus/Region Midtjylland) ist ein dänischer Tänzer und Choreograph.

Leben
Brandstrup studierte Musik und Film an der Universität Kopenhagen. Nach achtzehnmonatiger Vorbereitung wurde er 1980 an der London Contemporary Dance School aufgenommen, wo er von Nina Fonaroff unterrichtet wurde. 1985 gründete er in London die The Arc Dance Company, die er während ihres gesamten Bestehens bis 2006 leitete. Als freiberuflicher Choreograph arbeitete er für das Ballett (u. a. The Royal Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, The Royal Danish Ballet), die Oper, das Theater und den Film. Seine Choreographie Orfeo für das London Contemporary Dance Theatre wurde 1990 mit dem Laurence-Olivier-Award als beste Choreographie ausgezeichnet. Beim Ibsen-Festival in Norwegen präsentierte er 1990 seine Ballettversion des Peer Gynt. Am Grand Théâtre de Genève führte er 1991 Le Sacre du Printemps auf. Am Royal Opera House gab er von 2001 bis 2005 für Choreographen die DanceLines-Sommerkurse.
Choreographien
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Spiral Dance Company), 1983
- Help Me Somebody (Spiral Dance Company), 1984
- Sidechamber (Spiral Dance Company), 1984
- Tales of Sleep (Contemporary Dance Trust), 1985
- Dreaming the Blues (English Dance Theatre Gulbenkian), 1985
- Chamberplay, The Place Theatre, 1985
- Three Arabesques (Arc Dance Company), 1986
- The Soldiers Tale (Arc Dance Company), 1986
- Stardoom (Arc Dance Company), 1986
- I Want, I Want (Arc Dance Company), 1986
- Deus ex Machina (Arc Dance Company), 1987
- Vanada (Arc Dance Company), 1988
- In the house of… (Arc Dance Company), 1988
- The Dybbuk (Arc Dance Company), 1988
- West Side Story, Aalborg Theatre, 1989
- Orfeo (London Contemporary Dance Theatre), 1989
- Peer Gynt (Arc Dance Company), 1990
- The Dybbuk (London Contemporary Dance Theatre), 1990
- In Dream, I Dream, a Dream (London Contemporary Dance Theatre), 1991
- Le Sacre de Printemps (Grand Ballet de Geneva), 1991
- Mysteries (Arc Dance Company), 1991
- Death in Venice (Royal Opera), 1992
- White Nights (English National Ballet), 1992
- Antic (Arc Dance Company), 1993
- Zemir et Azor (Drottningholm Opera), 1993
- Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera), 1993
- Othello (Arc Dance Company/Irek Mukhamedov), 1994
- Saints and Shadows (Arc Dance Company), 1994
- Mysterier (The Royal Danish Ballet), 1994
- Death in Venice, Metropolitan Opera, 1994
- Eidolon (Rambert Dance Company), 1995
- Institute Benjamenta (Brothers Quay), 1995
- Angels and Insects (Samuel Goldwyn Company), 1995
- Crime Fictions (Arc Dance Company), 1996
- The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Malmo Dramatic Theatre), 1996
- Garden of Joy and Sorrows (Arc Dance Company), 1997
- Amor og Psyche (Royal Danish Ballet), 1997
- Sleeping Beauty (Royal New Zealand Ballet), 1998
- The Return Of Don Juan (Arc Dance Company), 1999
- Place of Stone (Norwegian Ballet), 2001
- Elegy (Arc Dance Company), 2001
- Queen of Spades (Les Grandes Ballets Canadiennes), 2001
- Brothers (Arc Dance Company), 2002
- Bounced Bach (Bare Bones), 2003
- Hamlet (Arc Dance Company), 2003
- Afsked (Out of Denmark), 2003
- Sons of a Wayfarer (Rambert Dance Company), 2004
- The Anatomy of a Storyteller (Arc Dance Company), 2004
- Two Footnotes to Ashton (Royal Ballet), 2005
- Theme and Inversion, The Place Theatre, 2005
- The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (Brothers Quay), 2006
- Pulcinella (Birmingham Royal Ballet), 2006
- The Fall of the House of Usher, Bregenz Festival, 2006
- Ghosts – five studies in musical phrasing (Den Kongelige Ballet), 2007
- Death in Venice (English National Opera), 2007
- Eurydice... She, So Beloved (Brothers Quay), 2007
- The Seven Deadly Sins (Greek National Opera), 2007
- Rushes - fragments of a lost story (The Royal Ballet), 2008
- Bird as Prophet (Alina Cojocaru), 2008
- The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), 2009
- DK60 (Carlos Acosta and Friends), 2009
- Goldberg, Royal Opera House, 2009
- Handel's Messiah (English National Opera), 2009
- Eidolon 1 & 2 (Royal Danish Ballet), 2010
- Invitus Invitam, 2010
- Rhapsody (The Danish Dance Theatre), 2011
- The Iron Lady, Film, 2011
- Carousel (Opera North), 2012
- La Traviata, Theater an der Wien, 2012
- Metamorphosis: Titian2012 - Machina, Royal Opera House, 2012
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Fitzroy Productions), 2012
- Médéé, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 2012
- Guillaume Tell, Muziektheater Amsterdam, 2013
- Ceremony of Innocence, 2013
- Genesis, Film (Crystal Ballet), 2013
- Jeux (New York City Ballet), 2015
- Transfigured Night (Rambert Dance Company), 2015
- Billy Budd (Teatro Real), 2016
- Shaken Mirror "Rystet Spejl" (The Royal Danish Ballet), 2016
Quellen
- DanceTabs: Kim Brandstrup – Choreographer
- Store norske leksikon: Kim Brandstrup
- Playbill: Kim Brandstrup
- Website von Kim Brandstrup
- Kim Brandstrup bei IMDb
| Personendaten | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandstrup, Kim |
| KURZBESCHREIBUNG | dänischer Tänzer und Choreograph |
| GEBURTSDATUM | 9. Januar 1957 |
| GEBURTSORT | Århus |