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Kim Brandstrup studied Film at the University of Copenhagen and Choreography with Nina Fonaroff at London School of Contemporary Dance. He founded his own dance company, Arc, in 1985, forging a narrative style that owes more to his early cinematic training than to classical story ballet or to the kineticism of contemporary dance. Throughout his career, and at times at odds with current trends, he has sought a theatre of movement that is both powerful and subtle, creating poignant and suggestive narratives that are always intensely human and emotionally revealing.
Brandstrup regularly choreographs for leading dance companies, including Royal Danish Ballet, Danish Dance Theatre, English National Ballet, New York City Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Rambert, Norwegian Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. His opera and theatre choreography includes credits with the Metropolitan Opera, New York, English National Opera, Greek National Opera, the Barbican, Opera North, Théâtre du Châtelet and at the Bregenz, Glyndebourne and Vienna festivals. His narrative approach has found new paths, growing more refined and precise while enjoying a looser, more experimental tone in its storytelling. He was the winner of the 2016 Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography for Transfigured Night (Rambert), the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for Goldberg: The Rojo/Brandstrup Project (Royal Ballet) and 1990 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Orfeo (London Contemporary Dance Theatre).
2016 Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography for Transfigured Night (Rambert)
2010 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for Goldberg: The Rojo/Brandstrup Project (Royal Ballet)
1990 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Orfeo (London Contemporary Dance Theatre)
Between the Rooms ballet and film LA Opera (May 2022)
Kiev - Film with Alina Cojocaru at Saddler's Wells (Feb 2020)
Billy Budd (2020 Best New Opera Olivier Award – Teatro Real and ROH)
Blanc (New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival)
La traviata (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées)
Life is A Dream (Rambert)
Pure Dance - In Absentia (Sadler’s Wells)
Medea (Wexford Opera)
Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Opera)
Between Worlds, Death in Venice, Marriage of Figaro, Messiah, Eugene Onegin (ENO)
Rystet Spejl (Royal Danish Ballet)
Jeux (New York City Ballet)
Transfigured Night (Rambert)
Leda and the Swan (Deloitte Ignite Festival, Royal Ballet)
Ceremony of Innocence (Royal Ballet, Aldeburgh Festival, DanceEast; Copenhagen)
Metamorphosis – Titian (co-choreographed with Wayne McGregor, Royal Ballet)
Eidolon I and II, Ghosts (Royal Danish Ballet)
Invitus, Invitam, Rushes and Goldberg (Royal Ballet)
Medée (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées)
Guillaume Tell (Netherlands Opera/ Metropolitan Opera)
The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne, Paris, New York)
Fall of the House of Usher, incorporating L’après midi and Jeux (Bregenz Festival)
Pulcinella (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
White Lead (Royal Swedish Ballet)
Two Footnotes for Ashton (ROH2, Russia, New York, Bucharest)
Film with the Brothers Quay to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s Orfeo
Theme and Inversion (White Christmas)
Songs of a Wayfarer (Rambert, UK tours)
Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Brothers Quay film)
Afsked (Out of Denmark, also Dance Umbrella Gala, London, Bucharest).
Among many new pieces are Queen of Spades (Montreal); In Place of Stone (Norwegian Ballet); Sleeping Beauty (Royal New Zealand Ballet).