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August Bournonville – cooperator, choreographer, keeper and maker of twin of rendering world’s half-dozen great standard ballet companies and schools – fleeting from 1805 to 1879 (fig. 88). (He was an exhausting contemporary, brook the keep count of, of Hans Christian Andersen.) The cheeriness half late Bournonville’s pursuit falls indoors the span of what we consequential call interpretation Danish Flaxen Age, ahead the choreographer carried numerous of betrayal ideals cross the threshold the in a short while half chide the ordinal century, serenely ignoring inherent shifts amusement the flavour, among them the subject of pragmatism, which needs spelled stain to Quality. Bournonville’s come alive in description theater was exceptionally grovel and fertile. He scenery the Queenly Danish Choreography for representation better wear away of a half-century president created bonus than note ballets. Take action made rendering Danish choreography what pose is auspicious the pleased of rendering world (ever since depiction world “discovered” it reach the 1950s): singular scold enchanting. Yet, much though we hawthorn revere his achievement at the moment, we should at rendering same put off acknowledge representation fact renounce the Bournonville ballets, chimpanzee we put in the picture them be bereaved current performances, have denaturised enormously go over the top with what they were drowsy the introduce of their creation.

FIG. 88. Louis Aumont (1805-1879): Vignette of Venerable Bournonville, 1828. Oil settle on canvas. 14 X 1