| Biography of Thomas Lund |
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| Thomas Lund was born in 1974. He was admitted to the Royal Danish Theatre Ballet School in 1986, apprentice in 1991, corps dancer in 1993, soloist in 1996 and principal dancer since 2000. |
| Lund has has prinicipal soloists at the Royal Danish Ballet Theatre as James in La Sylphide; Gennaro in Napoli; Carelis in The Kermesse in Bruges; the title role in Abdallah; the Ballet inspector in La Conservatoire; The Flower Market in Genzano; the Prince in The Nutcracker; Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream; solo dancer in Etudes; Bim in Gaité Parisienne; King Christian VII in Caroline Mathilde; Tarantella; Symphony in C, 3rd movement; Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (Rubies); Festpolonaisen; Zakouski; and Fancy Free. |
| He has also performed in Jockeydans; Peasant Pas de Deux in Giselle; Le Corsaire; Shy boy in The Concert; the Bluebird Pas de Deux in The Sleeping Beauty; Benno; Russian dance; the Narog Pas de Quartre in Swan Lake; the Waltz Project; twin in The Odyssey; Mercutio and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet; Lensky in Onegin; Fritz in The Nutcracker; Otto in The King's Volunteers on Amager; In the Middle; Somewhat Elevated; drummer in Graduation Ball; Land; Return to a Strange Land; Suite en Blanc; Ash; Fearful Symmetries; and Jazz. |
| Lund has had Gala performances in Europe and the USA. The Flower Festival in Genzano with the New York City Ballet, USA; James in La Sylphide at Teatro dell'Opera, Rome; guest performance at the Operetta Theatre, Moscow; The Flower Festival in Genzano and Napoli, 3rd Act at MEB Hall, Ankara, Turkey; the Prince in The Nutcracker, Inoue, Tokyo, Japan; Zakouski and The Flower Festival in Genzano at the 7th International Ballet Festival in Riga; visiting performer with Twyla Tharp Dance, performing Diabelli in Paris and London; Tim Rushton's Carmina Burana at the Marie Brolin Tanis Dansekompagni, Aarhus, Denmark; Frants in Coppelia at the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, USA; and a tour of South America and South Africa with Principals and Soloists from the Royal Danish Ballet. |
| Lund has received the 2004 Danish Reumert stage award as Dancer of the Year; Leonid Massine Premio Positano per l'Arte della Danza 2001; the 1998 DANCE Award; the Bournonville Award; the 2001 Pegasus Award as Artist of the Year at the Spoleto Festival; and the Award of the Foundation of HRH the Prince Consort in 1998. |
| Thomas Lund has staged La Conservatoire as stage director and Napoli as assistant director where he featured a new rendition of the 2nd act entitled En anden akt. He has created Relationer i Vinderværker, Hands of love performed in concert with Die Herren at Vega in Copenhagen as well as at the Choreographer's Workshop. He teaches at the Royal Danish Ballet and has formerly taught at the school of ballet in Hiroshima and has worked as a trainer at the New York International Competition. He has also been assigned as visiting teacher at the New York City Ballet and Twyla Tharp Dance. |
| Thomas Lund has furthermore played the piano since he was 7 and plays the keyboard in the Royal Danish Ballet rock band. |
