Itinerant challenges and newspaper support: The Johannesénske Balletselskab’s Norwegian tour 1878-1879

In March 1878 the Johannesénske Balletselskab travelled over the mountains from Östersund in Sweden to the Norwegian city of Trondheim.1 The Johannesénske Balletselselskab was used to travelling: in various shapes and forms, this ensemble had been on the road for almost thirty years. From March 1878...

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Published in:På Spissen
Main Author: Fiskvik, Anne Margrete
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Norske Dansekunstnere 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2657978
https://doi.org/10.18862/ps.2015.301
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spelling ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2657978 2023-05-15T18:34:48+02:00 Itinerant challenges and newspaper support: The Johannesénske Balletselskab’s Norwegian tour 1878-1879 Fiskvik, Anne Margrete 2015 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2657978 https://doi.org/10.18862/ps.2015.301 eng eng Norske Dansekunstnere På Spissen Forskning/ Dance Articulated. 2015, 3 1-28. urn:issn:0800-2452 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2657978 https://doi.org/10.18862/ps.2015.301 cristin:1316437 1-28 3 På Spissen Forskning/ Dance Articulated Peer reviewed Journal article 2015 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.18862/ps.2015.301 2020-06-17T22:32:54Z In March 1878 the Johannesénske Balletselskab travelled over the mountains from Östersund in Sweden to the Norwegian city of Trondheim.1 The Johannesénske Balletselselskab was used to travelling: in various shapes and forms, this ensemble had been on the road for almost thirty years. From March 1878 to October 1879, they gave people in smaller and peripheral towns the opportunity to see ballet for the first time. Performances were given in sixteen smaller and larger cities along the Norwegian coast. Trondhjem, Tromsø, Molde, Christianund, Aalesund, Bergen, Stavanger, Arendal, Larvik and Fredrikshald (Halden) were visited in 1879. In 1879 the dancing took place in cities closer to Kristiania: Fredrikstad, Moss, Holmestrand, Tønsberg, and finally Drammen.2In several places, the ensemble stayed long enough to offer dance lessons, thus teaching dance was also an important part of their itinerant life alongside the performances. In 1878, Johannesénske troupe consisted of ballet master and director Johan Fredrik Johannesén with wife Catharina and five “grown up children”: Jenny, Augusta, Josefine, Edmund and Alfred. When the family settled in Kristiania in November 1879, they had given 105 performances. The Johannesénske Balletselskab’s Norwegian tour is, in my opinion, of great interest to Norwegian dance- and theatre history. The family was, to the best of my knowledge, the first ballet ensemble of any nationality to undertake such an extensive tour of Norway publishedVersion OJS is free and open source software released under the open source GPL v2 license. You are free to download, use, and modify it at no charge. OJS is made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal’s readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale (see PKP Publications). Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Augusta ENVELOPE(163.100,163.100,-84.800,-84.800) Bergen Holmestrand ENVELOPE(-37.267,-37.267,-54.250,-54.250) Jenny ENVELOPE(-68.417,-68.417,-67.733,-67.733) Larvik ENVELOPE(-36.902,-36.902,-54.376,-54.376) Molde ENVELOPE(7.159,7.159,62.738,62.738) Norway Tromsø Tønsberg ENVELOPE(-45.916,-45.916,-60.533,-60.533) På Spissen 28/1 28/25
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description In March 1878 the Johannesénske Balletselskab travelled over the mountains from Östersund in Sweden to the Norwegian city of Trondheim.1 The Johannesénske Balletselselskab was used to travelling: in various shapes and forms, this ensemble had been on the road for almost thirty years. From March 1878 to October 1879, they gave people in smaller and peripheral towns the opportunity to see ballet for the first time. Performances were given in sixteen smaller and larger cities along the Norwegian coast. Trondhjem, Tromsø, Molde, Christianund, Aalesund, Bergen, Stavanger, Arendal, Larvik and Fredrikshald (Halden) were visited in 1879. In 1879 the dancing took place in cities closer to Kristiania: Fredrikstad, Moss, Holmestrand, Tønsberg, and finally Drammen.2In several places, the ensemble stayed long enough to offer dance lessons, thus teaching dance was also an important part of their itinerant life alongside the performances. In 1878, Johannesénske troupe consisted of ballet master and director Johan Fredrik Johannesén with wife Catharina and five “grown up children”: Jenny, Augusta, Josefine, Edmund and Alfred. When the family settled in Kristiania in November 1879, they had given 105 performances. The Johannesénske Balletselskab’s Norwegian tour is, in my opinion, of great interest to Norwegian dance- and theatre history. The family was, to the best of my knowledge, the first ballet ensemble of any nationality to undertake such an extensive tour of Norway publishedVersion OJS is free and open source software released under the open source GPL v2 license. You are free to download, use, and modify it at no charge. OJS is made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal’s readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale (see PKP Publications).
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