Kim Brandstrup
Film and Theatre productions featuring the work of Kim Brandstrup
Film/Theatre
Kim Brandstrup creates dance and movement for major feature films, most recently with Phyllida Lloyd (director of Mamma Mia), but also in independent/art cinema, collaborating over many years with The Brothers Quay.
Film/Theatre Projects
Eurydice... She, So Beloved
Brothers Quay
October 2007
'Caressed by Hades (Kenneth Tharp), she dances a limp and deathly pas de deux (choreographed by Kim Brandstrup). Orpheus descends to reclaim her, but when his bid to lead her back to life fails, a series of sublimely strange final images show him shut out and all light extinguished.'
Rupert Christensen, Daily Telegraph
The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
Brothers Quay
Koninck Studios, February 2006
THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is the breathtakingly beautiful and long-awaited second feature film from the Quay Brothers.
The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other
Malmo Dramatic Theatre
Hippodrome , Malmo, Novemberr 1996
"The brilliant over aching concept which Kim Brandstrup maintains throughout his directorial debut , forces our attention from the individual onto the the overall structure"
Monna Dithmer,Politiken
Angels and Insects
Samuel Goldwyn Company
December 1995
Based on A.S Byatt's novel and directed by Phillip Hass the film included a number a danced scenes choreographed by Kim Brandstrup, ranging from a a big Victorian ball to Amazonian tribal dances.
Institute Benjamenta
Brothers Quay
Koninck Studios, 1995
The first feature film by the Brothers Quay. This visually stunning and poetic evocation of 'Jakob von Gunten' by Robert Walser has since its premiere in 95 become a cult classic.
West Side Story
Aalborg Theatre
Aalborg Theatre, Denmark, May 1989