Royal Danish Ballet's Nikolaj Hübbe Photographed by Ethan Levitas for "The New Yorker"

All hail the impressively cool Artistic Director for the Royal Danish Ballet -- who has been photographed by Ethan Levitas for The New Yorker -- the image appears in the July 4 issue to illustrate a Joan Acocella piece and it's worth buying the magazine just for that.

Comments

[Bill Philin-Ploplis]

Yikes! He has aged badly!!!!

[Cassandra Riis]

He is just so NOT cool. He is destroying the Bournonville repertory. His desecration of Napoli is like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa ( the original)

Hopefully someone will bring him back to New York ( and away from Denmark) where he can try and fail without damage.

I also hope that the Danes have been reading the newspaper reviews of the performances in DC and NYC. That way they will realize that Bournonville is their treasure and not this inflated re-import. But then "The Emperor's New Clothes" is not a Danish tale for nothing.

It's time to heed Verdi's warning:

Oh mia patria sì bella e perduta!

Otherwise Denmark ( or the ballet, at least) will be more perduta than bella