Copenhagen

On 14-16 August, Kammerballetten collaborated with the early music ensemble Concerto Copenhagen on a new programme of Baroque music called Kaleidoscope. Yet “Chiaroscuro“ would perhaps have been a more apt title for the contrasting of Tobias Praetorius's Armonico Tributo, a luminous and finely crafted piece of abstract neoclassicism; Paul Lightfoot's theatrical, emotionally stirring Self-portrait (2021); and Sebastian Kloborg's Live on Tape, a dark, absurdist crossover piece after Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Praetorius draws on his own history: Armonico Tributo answers his 2019 ballet Chorale Dances and links it to Alexei Ratmansky's 2025 masterpiece The Art of the Fugue, in which Praetorius himself danced the protagonist. In the final image that figure is lifted vertically, arms ...