The Royal Danish Ballet announces 2026-2027 season
- Ikuko
- May 7
- 2 min read
The Royal Danish Ballet (Den Kongelige Ballet) announced its 2026-2027 season on 20th April 2026.
The company opens the new season with rarely performed Bournonville works as well as one of his most popular works, La Sylphide. He first presented his version of La Sylphide 190 years ago in November 1836.
As it was discussed in this The New York Times article in December last year, the programme shows the company is back to its Bournonville roots whilst keeping festive staples and venturing into contemporary works to move the company forward. Rightly so.
To Joy mixed programme: Pas de deux from From Siberia to Moscow and Wedding Pas de deux from Abdallah by August Bournonville; August 2.0 by Dinna Bjørn and Nikolaj Hübbe; and La Sylphide by Bournonville
Jewels by George Balanchine
Jane Eyre by Cathy Marston
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker
Under dybet: mixed-discipline stage art directed by Anja Behrens and choreographed by Oliver Marcus Starpov and Sebastian Kloborg
Dialogue: Artistic Director Amy Watson's platform for up and coming choreography talents will showcase Emma Portner's island, Eukene Sagues' Homo Sapiens Sapiens and the third choreographer to be announced.
The Royal Danish Ballet School performance: Frede Stær's dream theatre by Company Principal Dancer Tobias Praetorius
The Perfect Human: world premiere by Bobbi Jean Smith and Or Schraiber
Cinderella by Gregory Dean
Giant Steps triple bill: Justin Peck's In Creases, Ulysses Dove's Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Pam Tanowitz's Or Forevermore
From Siberia to Moscow (Fra Sibirien til Moskva) was created in 1876 and it was Bournonville's last long length ballet, according to Det Danske Filminstitut. The two minute silent film of the Jockey Dance can be found here. Female dancers are casted for the jockeys in the production in The Royal Danish Ballet's next season.
Abdullah was created in 1855. I found a delightful YouTube clip here. I am not sure when it was performed.
