PixiBallet - The Princess and the Pea

Take your pupils to the theatre and experience H.C. Andersen's fairy tale in a fun and beautiful PixiBallet for children. The Prince sets out on a long journey in his search for the one true princess, but it is not easy to find a princess with genuine feelings who dares to be herself. He is to meet no fewer than three very peculiar princesses before there is suddenly a knock at the door of his own castle. The Princess and the Pea is a poetic fairy tale which in this PixiBallet is told through dance and movement, entirely without words. The performance invites children into a Baroque fairy-tale world full of powder, wigs and a mysterious conductor who may well have a hand in the game. In Det Kongelige Teater's PixiForestillinger, children and their grown-ups can enjoy a fun and informal introduction to the theatre's classical art forms: opera, drama, ballet and concert. PixiBallet is a ballet in miniature, made and told for children solely through dance and movement, set to musical excerpts from well-known ballets. The Princess and the Pea is danced to music from, among others, the classical ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker by Pjotr Tjajkovskij. Give your pupils their perhaps first encounter with the ballet genre in this delightful performance. Recommended from age 4

• Femke Mølbach Slot (Prinsesser)
• Mads Blangstrup (Prinsen)
• Morten Eggert (Dirigent/Dronning)

RECORDINGS OF THE WORKS

Pjotr Tsjajkovskij: Svanesjøen, op. 20

The concert plays an excerpt of the work.

Watch in the DR archive (2015)More recordings on Kulturbase

Pjotr Tsjajkovskij: Nøtteknekkeren, op. 71

Whole work

The concert plays an excerpt of the work.

Watch on NRK TV (2001)All 2 parts on KulturbaseMore recordings on Kulturbase

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