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Nikolaj Hübbe

Danish ballet dancer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3341604 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nikolaj Hübbe (born 30 October 1967) is a former artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet until 31 October 2024 when the American Amy Watson was appointed as his replacement.

Career

Since becoming artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, Hübbe has successfully staged new productions of Bournonville's Napoli (2009) and A Folk Tale (2011) as well as Marius Petipa's La Bayadère (2012).

Farewell performance

Hübbe's farewell at City Ballet was held at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, on 10 February 2008.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nikolaj Hübbe” as danish ballet dancer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2024, 2009, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-10-30. The account is most persuasive where Nikolaj, Hübbe and Danish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as danish ballet dancer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3341604. VIAF identifies the subject as 7680374. The Library of Congress control number is n97846261. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967, 2024, 2009 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nikolaj Hübbe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.