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NYCB is returning to Copenhagen with an all Balanchine programme on September 6. Serenade is included.

Get tickets here: billetnet

photo via ballet blog the winger 

check the revamped new york city ballet website for videos on balanchine and other choreographers

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NYCB is returning to Copenhagen with an all Balanchine programme on September 6. Serenade is included.

Get tickets here: billetnet

photo via ballet blog the winger 

check the revamped new york city ballet website for videos on balanchine and other choreographers

Read the rest of this entry »

by tim anderson

News reporters in Copenhagen, and in particular TV2 News – Denmark’s 24-hour news channel - recently had what was probably their biggest news week for several years.

It all began with a police raid of the Ungdomhus (‘The Youth House’) in Nørrebro in Copenhagen on March 1, which succeeded in clearing out the occupants of the building. The Ungdomshus had been the subject of much controversy over the previous months (and years) thanks to the steadfast refusal of those using the building to voluntarily vacate the premises.

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by tim anderson

On pretty much any hot and sunny day in Copenhagen (in fact, it doesn’t really need to be that hot, just sunny), at certain hours of the day you’ll find queues like it was a supermarket twenty-five years ago in Eastern Europe suffering a food shortage.

Alas, it’s not a shortage of food that drives the crowds toward Paradisin Copenhagen, rather it’s a shortage of comparably tasty ice cream to be found anywhere else in the city. Italian style ice cream. Really f#%*ing tasty ice cream.

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by tim anderson

If there is one thing that can be said about the current government in Denmark, it’s that they are becoming rather predictable.

Needing the proudly xenophobic/racist Dansk Folkeparti to prop up their minority/coalition government, the government has developed a nasty little habit of throwing their support behind various proposals propagating the idea of ‘Danishness’ (thereby helping to ward off perceived threats to whatever it is that this so-called ‘Danishness’ is…).

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