Royal Danish Theatre Just Put Out a Truly Crazy Paean to the Creative Process

Making performances come to life, with intensity (and a few AK-47s)

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The ballerinas at the Royal Danish Theatre are not messing around.

Tutu-clad dancers wield AK-47s in a new ad for the theater, celebrating the many hands and hard work that go into putting on a season's worth of live shows.

Scene designers drip paint, wardrobe artists labor over sewing machines, musicians practice their instruments backstage, singers warm up their voices, and actors get into character in the gorgeously shot, busy-bee montage promoting the arts institution, which presents ballet and opera.

But the shots of daintily posed ladies holding and cocking assault rifles are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the video's most striking.

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