Elisabeth Dam

Elisabeth Dam

Character dancer

Born: November the 12th 1984

Education: The Royal Danish Ballet School

Career: Employed as an apprentice at The Royal Danish Ballet 2001, employed as Corps de Ballet at The Royal Danish Ballet 2003, assistant instructor from 2014

Repertoire: Medea in Far from Denmark  (August Bournonville), Azeli in Abdallah  (August Bournonville), Else in Lifeguards on Amager  (August Bournonville), Johanne in The Kermesse in Bruges (August Bournonville) , Nancy in  La Sylphide (August Bournonville/Nikolaj Hübbe), Viderik in A Folktale (August Bournonville/Nikolaj Hübbe), Imogen and Violenta in Romeo og Juliet  (John Neumeier), Digital Secrets (Jacopo Godani), Sechs Tänze , Polonaise (Jiri Kylián), Lady of Camellias, The Odyssey, The little Mermaid, A Midsummer night’s dream (John Neumeier), The Concert, The Cage, West Side Story (Jerome Robbins), Serenade, Symphony in C,  Symphony in 3, Donizetti Variations,  The Nutcracker (George Balanchine) , Schumann´s 2nd Symphony (Uwe Scholz), Onegin (John Cranko), Etudes (Harald Lander), Manon (Kenneth Macmillan), Napoli, The Conservatory , La Ventana (August Bournonville ), Sleeping Beauty (Christopher Wheeldon), Swanlake (Peter Martins), Anna Karenina, The Nutcracker, The Golden Cockerel (Alexei Ratmansky), Don Quixote (Alicia Alonso), La Bayadère (Petipa/ Hübbe), Caroline Mathilde (Flemming Flindt),  The Fugue (Twyla Tharp), Minus 7 (Ohad Naharin), Requiem (Tim Rushton), La Stravaganza (Angelin Preljocaj), In Contact (Corpus/ Christian Lollike), Interrregnum, We’re waving not drowning (Corpus), Fever Harbor (Signa/Corpus). 

Scholarships: D.A.N.C.E. Scholarship recieved in 2005 and Albert Gaubier’s Scholarship recieved in 2005. 

Other: As an assistant instructor: Swan Lake (Hübbe/Schandorff), Etudes (Harald Lander), La Sylphide (Hübbe/ Bournonville), La Bayadère (Petipa/ Hübbe), Know (Idan Sharabi), Shaken Mirror (Kim Brandstrup).