The Princess and the Pea - a PixiBallet

H.C. Andersen's classic fairy tale as a funny and beautiful PixiBallet for the very youngest. The prince sets out on a long journey in search of just the right princess, but it is not easy to find a princess with genuine feelings who dares to be herself. He must 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 and their grown-ups 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, the youngest members of the family get a fun and informal introduction to the theatre's classical art forms: opera, drama, ballet and concert. PixiBallet is a ballet in miniature, created and told for children purely through dance and movement 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 Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Give children their - perhaps - first encounter with the ballet genre in this delightful performance for the little ones. 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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