Our dancing friend Barbie with Cookie the Border Collie were one of the
10 teams that had been invited to dance on the main stage in
Bakken on Kristi Himmelfartsdag (Ascension Day).
Bakken is the oldest amusement park in the world and it is located in the most attractive countryside area near Copenhagen. To be invited to perform there is a huge honour and Barbie wouldn't have missed it for anything! She really enjoyed it and Cookie was stunning. Barbie was very pleased with their own performance and cheered loudly for the winners Birgitte and Emilie, who performed a pairs routine to a track from Disney's Cinderella.
Barbie loves to mingle with the rich and famous. She is a sucker for celebrities and meeting Pjerrot* really made her day!
*)The year of 1800 saw the arrival of Pjerrot, who went on to become one of the best-loved characters at Bakken. The Pjerrot figure is around 4,000 years old and originally hails from Turkey. The figure gradually reached all parts of Europe and 500 years ago underwent something of a renaissance in the Italian Commedia dell’ Arte, where he appeared as a playful apprentice miller who was hopelessly in love with the beautiful Columbine. The Pjerrot figure also had a large mouth at that time, but whereas today the big lips are painted on, back then the poor artist actually had his mouth cut larger. The first Pjerrot at Bakken was Casorti, the Italian artist, who performed pantomime. Since then, Pjerrot transformed into a tow eating character whom primarily performed magic tricks and puppet theatre. The tradition of the magic tricks and puppet theatre lives on but Pjerrot no longer eats tow. “Far too unhealthy,” explains Bakken’s Pjerrot.
