"Æ Rømeser" is an 18th-century dance from the village of Sønderho, situated at the southern end of Fanø, one of the many Danish islands that hug the country's west coast. The Danish String Quartet's ...

In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition. By Alastair Macaulay Erik Aschengreen, an eminent ...

This is what dance-punk bands look like in Denmark. The Fashion’s singer, Jakob Printzlau, claims that his Danish band “just is not that up on the dance-rock scene in America.” Sounds funny, coming ...

After years focused on international repertory and new work, the company is returning the choreographer August Bournonville, “our place of belonging,” to the heart of its mission. By Marina Harss ...

Tim Rushton – Birmingham-born and Royal Ballet school-trained – has built his entire career outside the UK, his last 10 years spent as director of Danish Dance Theatre. And what's evident, as DDT make ...

After its successful 2013 Joyce Theater debut, as part of Ice Hot: A Nordic Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) proudly welcomes Danish Dance Theatre, one ...

In 2004, the Danish Dance Theatre (known then as the New Danish Dance Theatre) made a splashy American debut at Jacob’s Pillow in Western Massachusetts with a provocative program featuring video ...

Britain might be good at producing choreographic talent, but we're not always so clever at keeping it. Over the last two decades, we've lost the likes of Christopher Wheeldon, David Dawson, Paul ...

Tim Rushton trained at the Royal Ballet School at a time when greats like Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan trod its corridors. There he also made his first contact with Danish dance, in the form ...

Hopsa, a type of folk music, describes a Danish dance style derived from the polka, but at a higher speed and with a much more jumpy rhythm. The Danish folk music duo Gangspil will perform a concert ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Some of the best dances – by Balanchine, Morris, Tharp – have been made to romantic ballads, but Danish Dance Theatre ...