Throwback Thursday and Flemming Flindt
For those who think ballets are always sweet, romantic and
filled with ethereal beings, I give you choreographer Flemming Flindt.
Flemming Flindt was Danish, born to parents who
owned a restaurant near the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. He was a dancer, company director and
choreographer, who, like Bournonville before him, helped preserve his country’s
ballet heritage. He began his dance
studies at age ten at the Royal Danish Ballet School, and as his performing
career developed he danced typical classical roles.
In 1966 he became the director of The Royal Danish Ballet,
and introduced several changes. One was having
the company hold open auditions, and for the first time in its history, hire
non-Danish dancers. He remained director
until 1978. From 1981 to 1989, he
directed The Dallas Ballet in Texas, and traveled throughout America and Europe staging
productions.
Flemming Flindt is probably best known as a choreographer,
and his works are, well, somewhat unusual – at least compared to traditional
ballets. His first ballet is probably
his most famous. “The Lesson” was
choreographed in 1963 and depicts a ballet teacher who murders his students.
Flemming Flindt died in 2009 at his home in Sarasota,
Florida.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #34:
“Flemming Flindt was a
Danish choreographer, dancer, and director who created many ballets including ‘The Lesson’.”
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the things you look at change.”
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Wayne Dyer
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