| If you are a lover of ballet dancing, then you will find its | | | | The present production of Conservatoire was |
| history very interesting, and knowing a bit about the | | | | reproduced in 1941 by Harald Lander and Valborg |
| past helps you to better interpret your ballet dancing in | | | | Borchsenius (One of Bournonville's pupils). Poul Gnatt |
| today's standards, as you will have a better feeling for | | | | also added to this production three dances from |
| the work if you can understand where it comes from. | | | | Bournonville's Monday and Saturday classes. |
| The ballet Conservatoire is not one of the most | | | | Continuing this tradition, Kirsten Ralov and Fredbjorn |
| popular ballets around, but is very entertaining to watch | | | | Bjornsson choreographed Wednesday Class for the |
| never the less. August Bournonville choreographed this | | | | Royal Danish Ballet in 1973 and was based on the |
| ballet around memories of his early life as a pupil in | | | | technique formulated by Bournonville and which is still |
| Paris. Conservatoire was at first produced with a | | | | taught at the Royal Danish Ballet School today. |
| story and in two acts by the Royal Danish Ballet in | | | | Bournonville's classes varied for each day of the week |
| 1849, and then later revived without plot in one act | | | | and other studio ballet's have been formed around this |
| form. | | | | concept namely Etudes (1948), Ballet School (1962) and |
| Conservatoire depicts a ballet lesson in a French | | | | The Lesson (1964) where the productions use a |
| dancing academy. It is meant to reproduce a ballet | | | | dancing studio as a setting for a ballet. |
| class, but is shrewdly choreographed for theatrical | | | | Other studio ballets which follow a similar note are |
| effect. Conservatoire has loads of humour and charm | | | | Afternoon of a Faun and Three Preludes, which also |
| and builds up from the simplest steps in basic ballet | | | | take place in a dancing studio, but are only danced as |
| positions to the most advanced actions known to the | | | | duet's. In Three Preludes, there is a bar in the centre |
| dancers of the day. Many parts of this ballet remain | | | | which becomes the third element in the ballet and |
| difficult and exciting even by today's standards. | | | | essentially turns it into a pas de trios. |