Anna Balslev

Anna Balslev is known for her sensual, musical and playful interpretations of classics, such as Strindberg's A Dream Play and Molière's Don Juan at The Royal Danish Theatre, Main Stage. Other notable examples include Pride and Prejudice at Betty Nansen Theatre, 2021/2022, which received a Reumert Award for Play of The Year '22, and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, which premiered at Mellemgulvet at the Royal Danish Theatre and re-premiered in the summer of 2022 at the Main Stage of same theatre, and sold out. Balslev is passionate about telling stories about feeling different. She is disabled with muscular dystrophy but did ballet for 12 years (from 3-15 yrs old), which has played a decisive part in strengthened her body. Anna’s experiences from the ballet, and the day-to-day fact of living with a different body, has often expressed itself in Anna’s work as a certain physical sensibility and an intensified musicality. Furthermore, Anna’s life with muscular dystrophy often finds its way into the work in that the plays often treat themes about non-normative identities, and about residing in a body that doesn’t live up to one’s own expectations.