Nikolaj Hübbe seems to be intent on upsetting some of the Royal Danish Ballet's most faithful admirers with his new version of the Royal Danish Ballet's almost sacred La Sylphide.
The company have been performing it, more or less in its original form, since August Bournonville created it in 1836, but now Hübbe is going to break with tradition in both the storytelling and its setting.
Things will become clear at the première, but now I can only talk in code... I can say that we've changed some of the sexes of the roles. Some people who might not exactly be gender-confused, can certainly be sexually confused.
Hübbe says in an interview with the Berlingske newspaper.
I can reveal the dancers' names, but not the roles that they will dance,
he says intriguingly. If this means that the sylph may be played by a man, the fact that the choreography will remain that of Bournonville - so he says - is certainly puzzling.
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