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Apr. 18th, 2026 07:24 pm
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Amelia (21) used to be a freelance dancer for New York State Ballet, but she couldn't get a permanent contract, so she ended up leaving for Europe to apply to a smaller company.

She first tried several companies in Italy, hoping her fluent Italian could get her in, but no such luck. Eventually she got a contract with the National Ballet of Denmark in Copenhagen. She has been a corps member there for two years now and she is already beginning to get soloist work. She plans to stay in Denmark until she can make principal. Only when she gets to dance the leads does she feel like she can make up for leaving her sister to care for her hospitalized mom. Only then will it have been worth leaving.

In January 2025, she finds out she has been cast as Madge in La Sylphide and since it's her biggest opportunity yet, she celebrates with her best friend and roomie, Margaux Gauthier, whose bed she ends up sleeping in. They are casual partners, but since Amelia still misses her ex-girlfriend in the US, she refuses to commit herself fully.

At the end-of-the-run party for the whole company, Amelia ends up spending the evening with Emma Gregersen (18), the prodigy of the Danish group at the NBD, and they hook up in a bathroom.

Although Amelia likes Emma, she still refuses to commit herself to anyone, so she ignores the other girl completely afterwards. However, the two keep gravitating towards each other and eventually kiss again, Amelia inviting Emma along to a foreign-group-only party that Margaux is hosting at their shared apartment. While the party continues into the night, Amelia and Emma spend the night together in Amelia's bedroom. Like this, Margaux finds out about them, Emma deciding to tell her boyfriend and break up with him.

Her boyfriend supports her and for a while the four keep Amelia's and Emma's secret from the rest of the company, while Emma finds the courage to come out to her parents and Amelia arranges for her mom and sister to come watch her final performance as Madge before the show is going on tour for the summer.

Amelia wants Emma to meet her family and the day before the performance, they fly in, Amelia and Emma spending the day with them. At the end of the day, the two girls decide to move in together next season.

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Apr. 17th, 2026 08:55 pm
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Emma is a prodigy, they say, very, very talented - on her rests the Bournonville legacy. That is what Emma has heard ever since she joined the National Ballet of Denmark's prestigious school at age six, having begun dancing as a toddler.

Now, she has aced her exams, breezed through her apprentice years and has finally received a corps contract with the ballet company she has strived to become a part of for all this time. And not only that, but the first thing she does as part of the corps is to land the coveted role of 1st sylph in artistic director, Nicolas Dam's reimagining of the Bournonville classic, La Sylphide.

The role of the witch, Madge, usually danced by an experienced character dancer, is given to Amelia Romano, a second year corps dancer from one of New York's big name companies. It creates an uproar, but Nicolas doesn't yield. Amelia is to dance the role with mentoring by the popular character dancer and former principal, the Swedish Jenny Olsson.

And while these intense rehearsals unfold, Emma is busy looking to buy a new apartment with her boyfriend, Rupert Aagaard, whom she's been dating for three years. A year older than her at nineteen, he is known as a great technician and dance partner, with a steady personality. He is safe. Familiar.

And not at all as interesting as the ferocious and strong Amelia who acts like acting were her job.

This run of La Sylphide might come to change the trajectory of Emma's life.

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