Kim Brandstrup
awards and nominations
awards and nominations
MACHINA - 2012
Nominated for a South Bank Skye Arts Award
iNVITUS INVITAM - 2011
Nominated for a Crtics Award for Best Classical Choreography
GOLDBERG - THE BRANDSTRUP-ROJO PROJECT - 2010
Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production
Nomination for the Critics’ Circle award for Best Classical Choreography
TWO FOOTSNOTES TO ASHTON - 2005
Nomination for the Critics’ Circle award for Best Classical Choreography
ELEGY - 2001
Nomination for TMA Best Dance Production
SAINTS AND SHADOWS - 1995
Nomination for the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production
OTHELLO - 1994
Evening Standard Award for Best New Dance Production
ORPHEO - 1989
Olivier award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Dance
awards and nominations Projects
Metamorphosis: Titian2012 - Machina
Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House, July 2012
Kim Brandstrup and Wayne McGregor's choreography is at once miraculously sensual and, intermittently, mechanical. Carlos Acosta is at his sensational best, conveying ecstasy and sorrow, dancing with a galvanising Edward Watson against a background of fog, and alone with the machine as it turns against him. Nico Muhly's music is a beautiful mixture of trance and foreboding.
Invitus Invitam
The three giants of 20th-century dance overshadow most, but not Kim Brandstrup, the Danish choreographer whose new piece for The Royal Ballet held its own in a mixed bill that featured canonical work by all three of the mighty trio." ****
Evening Standard
Goldberg
ROH2
Royal Opera House, September 2009
“an ingeniously organised, frequently humorous, gently enigmatic and wholly luminous hour and a quarter – a mini-masterpiece, in short.”
Jenny Gilbert, Independent on Sunday *****
Two Footnotes to Ashton
Royal Ballet
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London , June 16 2005
“Kim Brandstrup’s playful pas de deux (danced to a Gluck aria) was the unrivalled hit of the evening….It was an instant classic, the kind of work you want to see again immediately. Whatever happened to encores?”
Louise Levene, The Sunday Telegraph
Elegy
Arc Dance Company/ Dance Umbrella
New Victoria Theatre, Woking , April 2001
"Its choreography actually combines a very Dostoyevskian intensity with the vividly specific physical personalities of its three superb dancers. The result, though spare, is engrossingly dramatic." “[Kim Brandstrup’s] best work to date for the British stage”
Judith Mackrell, The Guardian
Saints and Shadows
Arc Dance Company
Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, August 1994
“Kim Brandstrup has a distinctive theatricality, a gift for creating and sustaining atmosphere so that every frame in his work glows with style. He can make magic and mystery too, as he does in his newest piece Saints and Shadows”
The Stage
Othello
Arc Dance Company/Irek Mukhamedov
Sadler's Wells, Feburary 1994
"Given Brandstrup’s confident and impassioned choreographic style with its strongly dramatic basis and cinematic fluency, Mukhamedov had no need to adapt his classical training. His part was brilliantly tailored to suit the vigorous and virtuoso Bolshoi technique "
Katherine Sorley Walker, Daily Telegraph
