Kim Brandstrup

Choreographer

Kim trained for a Degree in Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
He has also spent 4 years studying Choreography under Nina Fonaroff at the London Contemporary Dance School, The Place, London.

In 1985 Kim set up his own dance Company ARC Dance.

New Dance Works Created by Kim Brandstrup
2010
The Fairy Queen (revival)	Opera Comique, Paris, Caen Brooklyn Academy of Music Dir. Jonathan Kent
Rushes (revival)	Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
Two New Pieces (Untitled)	Royal Danish Ballet
2009
The Fairy Queen	Glyndebourne Festival Dir. Jonathan Kent
The Messiah	English National Opera Dir. Deborah Warner
Goldberg Variations	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
2008
Rushes: Fragments of a Lost Story	Royal Ballet The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Main Stage
'Kim Brandstrup is a dance-maker whose time has come. ' Jenny Gilbert, The Independent
'The result is one of the richest and most dramatic new ballets seen on the stage of the Royal Opera House for a good long time, a sensual, fluid creation.' Sarah Crompton, The Telegraph
Queen of Spades	Revival in Montreal, Canada
2007
Summer Collection	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Ghosts	The Royal Danish Ballet
New Piece	Northern School of Contemporary Dance
2006
La Chute de la Maison Usher Incorporating the scores of 'Prelude a L'Apres Midi d'un Faun' & 'Jeux' to tell the pre-story to this unfinished Debussy Opera	Indoor Stage, Bregenz Festival Production by Phyllida Lloyd and Kim Brandstrup. Direction by Phyllida Lloyd, Choreography by Kim Brandstrup.
'... a unique & bewitching experiment. ..The result is a richly suggestive evocation of ripe Romantic decadence.' Rupert Christiansen. The Telegraph 11 August 06.
Pulcinella	Birmingham Royal Ballet
'At the programme's heart is Kim Brandstrup's Pulcinella.... Brandstrup is a skilled dance-maker...' Clement Crisp, The Financial Times, 25 October 06
2005
White Christmas short piece	The Place, London
'..a masterly evocation of a faltering love affair...' The Guardian, 03 December 05
White Lead	Royal Swedish Ballet
Part of NOKO - a celebration of Nordic Choreography
The Anatomy of a Storyteller	Arc Dance Company at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
'...a choreographic gift...' Evening Standard, 30 November 05
Two Footnotes to Ashton Duet for Johan Kobburg & Alina Cojacaru. Solo for Zenaida Yanowsky	Royal Ballet, Linbury Studio
Nominated for Best Classical Choreography in the 2005 Critics Circle / National Dance Awards.
2004
Hamlet	ARC Dance Company - Salisbury Festival and tour
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes	Feature Film with the Quay brothers
Songs of a Wayfarer	Rambert, 2004 Edinburgh Festival and tour
The Anatomy of a Storyteller Hans Christian Anderson Project	ARC Dance - World Premiere, the Linbury Studio As part of Dance Umbrella
2003
Hamlet	ARC Dance, also performed at Elsinor in the summer
Afsked Part of Johan Kobborg's Evening Out of Denmark	Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
2002
The Brothers (Based on Dostoevsky)	ARC Dance
2001
In Place of Stone	Norwegian Ballet
Elegy	ARC Dance
Queen of Spades	Les Grandes Ballets Canadiennes, Montreal
1999
The Return of Don Juan	ARC - New full length Ballet With Irek Mukhamedov
1998
Sleeping Beauty New production	Royal New Zealand Ballet
1997
Garden of Joys and Sorrows	ARC Dance
Les Noces (re-worked)	ARC Dance
Orfeo	ARC Dance
Cupid and Psyche	Royal Danish Ballet World Premiere - Full length Ballet
1996
Crime Fictions Full length ballet	ARC
Eidolon	Rambert Dance
1995
Mysteries	Filmed for Danmarks Radio and TV
Angels and Insects	Film
Institute Benjamenta	with Brothers Quay - Film
1994
Saints and Shadows	ARC, Tivoli, Copenhagen
Nominated for the 1995 Olivier Award for Dance.
Mysteries	Royal Danish Ballet
1993
Antic	ARC Dance Based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Othello	Irek Mukhamedov with ARC Dance
1992
White Nights	English National Ballet
1990
Peer Gynt	ARC Dance
In Dream, I Dream a Dream	London Contemporary Dance
Mysteries	ARC/Tivoli/ Copenhagen
Le Sacre de Printemps	Grand Ballet de Geneve
1989
Orfeo	London Contemporary Dance
Winner of the 1990 Olivier Award for Dance
1988
Vanada	ARC Dance
The House Dybbuk	ARC Dance
1987
Deus ex Machina	ARC Dance
Yetzia	ARC Dance
1986
Three Arabesque	ARC Dance
Soldiers' Tale	ARC Dance
Stardoom	ARC Dance
I want, I want	ARC Dance
1985
ARC Dance Set up by Kim Brandstrup
Dances from the North
Tales of Sleep	Place Theatre Season
Les Noces
Under Moon
Dreaming the Blues	English Dance
Chamberplay	ARC Dance
1984
Help me Somebody	Spira Dance
Sidechamber	Spira Dance
1983
The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Spira Dance

Choreography for Opera Productions
2010
The Fairy Queen	BAM, New York Dir. Jonathan Kent
The Fairy Queen	Opera Comique, Paris Dir. Jonathan Kent
2009
The Messiah	English National Opera Dir. Deborah Warner
Death in Venice	Teatre Royal de La Monnaie/De Munt
The Fairy Queen	Glyndebourne Festival Opera Dir: Jonathan Kent
Death In Venice	Grand Theatre De La Ville, Luxembourg
2007
Seven Deadly Sins	Greek National Opera
Death In Venice	English National Opera Director: Deborah Warner
“I don’t think I have seen the dance element better handled than by Warner and her choreographer Kim Brandstrup, whose routines of organised athleticism in the Games of Apollo seem to emerge organically out of the youthful playfulness of Tadzio and friends.” Hugh Canning, Sunday Times
1994
Death in Venice	Metropolitan Opera New York
1993
Zemir et Amor	Drottningholm Opera, Stockholn, Sweden Dir. John Cox
Eugene Onegin	Royal Opera House Dir. John Cox
1992
Death in Venice	Royal Opera House,Covent Garden Dir: Colin Graham

Theatre Direction / Choreography
1996
The Hour we Knew Nothing of Each Other by Peter Handke	Malmo Theatre, Sweden Director/Choreographer

last update : 18 November, 2009