Kopenhagen en tour (english version)

Dansk Danseteater is the leading group in the small world of contemporary dance in Copenhagen, and director Tim Rushton has an extraordinary flair for letting his dancers grow steadily. Sometimes they grow into choreographers, as is the case in the latest production, set to the music of Carl Orff, the Carmina Burana. The subtitle whereof is ”Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae … atque imaginibus magicis”, and the two choreographers have done their best to provide magical images to the profane songs.

Very promising extracts from the present show were performed at the always very lively summer festival at the Central Police Headquarters not far from Tivoli Gardens, a Neo-Classical building not unlike the Colosseum in form, where you can walk in and enjoy a dance performance for free under the darkening evening sky. A quite magical generosity both on the part of the police and on the part of the performers. 

Italian Fabio Liberti and Brasilian Alessandro Sousa Pereira, who have been with Dansk Danseteater since 2010 and 2007, respectively, have divided the Carmina Burana evening between them, concentrating each on a specific medieval universe. Stylistically, the two ...