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| Choreographic Workshop, "Clore Upstairs", ROH, August 2005 |
Kim Brandstrup
Kim Brandstrup studied film at the University of Copenhagen and choreography under Nina Fonaroff at the London Contemporary Dance School before establishing Arc Dance Company in 1985. He has created over twenty works for the Arc Dance Company, including Saints and Shadows (Olivier Award nominee), Antic, Crime Fictions, Peer Gynt, Elegy, Brothers, Hamlet, Otello (Evening Standard Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Dance, 1993) and Hans Christian Andersen - the Anatomy of a Storyteller (2004).
Kim's freelance credits include productions for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, including Orfeo (1989 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Dance), Geneva Ballet, ENB, Royal Danish Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal and Afsked for Johan Kobborg.
Recent commissions included new works for the Royal Swedish Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet and an evening of opera and dance to Debussy at the Bregenz Festival 2006, the Choreography for Death in Venice directed by Deborah Warner, for the ENO (2007).
Kim Brandstrup was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through its Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts scheme (2003-06), and by the School of Arts and Education, Middlesex University, where he is a Research Fellow.
See Loesje Sanders' web site for more information about Kim.
Articles and writings
Theorising
Brandstrup at Work
Kim Brandstrup with Susan Melrose and Steffi
Sachsenmaier
The instant
before choice: a choreographer's practical
speculations on time and perception
Kim Brandstrup & Niki Pollard
NOTE (September 2007): this site is under development and more material will be added over the coming weeks including:
- Early Influences
- Dance Background
- Choreographic training
- Early works - first works and first commissions
- The Dance scene 1970-85
- Arc 1985-89
- Orfeo and other work 1989-93
- Early Balletwork 1992-97
- Arc 1989-97
- The Dance scene 1985-2000 - the context in which Arc developed, development of physical theater, post-modern dance
- The reforming of Arc 2000-2005
- Ballet and Freelance work 2003-2007
Photographic performance documentation
- Two pieces by Kim Brandstrup at The Place 2005 ...
- Photo-documentation from rehearsal for Kim Brandstrup's production Anatomy of a Storyteller, based on stories by Hans Christian Anderson ...
- Photo-documentation from Arc Dance Company rehearsal of Hamlet...
Web design and photography by John Robinson
With thanks to Susan Melrose
Last updated 13:25 7th October 2007