Kirsten Simone

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Kirsten Simone
Born (1934-07-01) July 1, 1934 (age 83)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Occupation Ballet dancer

Kirsten Simone (born 1 July 1934) is a former Danish ballerina. She studied at the Royal Danish Ballet School with Vera Volkova and joined the Royal Danish Ballet Company in 1952. She became their first soloist in 1966. She created roles in Flemming Flindt's The Three Musketeers (1966), Elsa-Marianne von Rosen's Don Juan (1967) and Harald Lander's Fête polonaise (1970). She was a guest artist with several companies including the American Ballet Theatre and London Festival Ballet. Since her retirement she has taught at the Royal Danish Ballet School.

Vera Volkova (Russian: Bepa Boлкoвa; was a Russian ballet dancer and expatriate dance teacher.

Royal Danish Ballet classical ballet company

The Royal Danish Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark. It is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world and originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded. It was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance. The company was founded with the opening of the Royal Danish Theatre, which has served as its home since that time.The Royal Danish Ballet school was founded in 1771 under the French ballet teacher Pierre Laurent (1730-1807), Then Vincenzo Galeotti developed it and August Bournonville founded his methodology for the school.

Flemming Flindt was a Danish choreographer born in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet schools, joined the Royal Danish Ballet and was promoted to soloist in 1955. He guested with the London Festival Ballet in 1955, the Ballet Rambert in 1960, the Royal Ballet 1963 and the Bolshoi Ballet in 1968, becoming an étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet in 1961.

Simone stars as mentor to a young ballerina in the 1966 film Ballerina . [1]

Ballerina also known as The Copenhagen Ballet is the story of a young girl Mette Sorensen who aspires to be a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, against the wishes of her mother but with the support of her musician father and her mentor, the famous ballerina Kirsten Holm.

She was awarded the Ingenio et Arti medal in 2001. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Ballerina". Allmovie . Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "For videnskab og kunst medaljen Ingenio et arti" [For science and art: the Ingenio et Arti medal]. Litterære priser, medaljer, legater mv [Literary prizes, medals, scholarships, etc] (in Danish). Retrieved 2010-09-05. List of recipients. Self-published, but with references .
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