Thomas Lund (dancer) - Additional Information

Additional Information

At the Royal Danish Ballet Lund staged Le Conservatoire and worked on Napoli as assistant director.
He featured a new rendition of the 2nd act of Napoli entitled A Second Act. Other creations include Relations, Hands of Love (performed in concert with Die Herren at Vega, Copenhagen) as well as at the Choreographer's Workshop.
He is teacher 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.

In 2007 Lund collaborated with ballet- and art-historian Ole Nørlyng on the book Danseglæde og springkraft - 16 spor til dansen, using Lund's own story as a basis for a wide-ranging look at the world of ballet.

From the book:

'You don't know how you look on stage, but if what you're doing reads clearly it means you have to try to be quite honest, because otherwise it shows. You have to be very aware of how you work with yourself - it all comes from what you feel at that moment. When I do James, for instance, I actually say the lines to myself as I'm doing the mime. Not always, but... you have to have the overall feeling at that moment, in that scene; and then one scene leads into the next, and sometimes, if for instance in Sylphide or Napoli something doesn't go how I want during the first act, then when I'm up in my dressing room in the intermission I try to work out what I felt, and what do I need to do now, to get it in a way so it still works. That way you don't always do it the same way - what I'm doing on Friday might be a little different from last night because suddenly things fall out a little differently in the first act. So I need the intermission to reflect. And this is what I think is so wonderful about the Royal Danish Ballet, that we work so strongly with the tradition of acting, and that is probably why I'm still here, that I get from our repertory the opportunity of going back to these parts and developing. (Translation by Jane Simpson)

To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of August Bournonville, the Danish Postal Service - Post Danmark - issuied on 4 May 2005 two commemorative postage stamps.
On the DKK 4.50 stamp Lund was the silhouette performing the characteristic Bournonville leap, Grand Jeté, in Bournonville's ballet Napoli.