Agneta Valcu

Biography

Born in Stockholm. Dance education by Lilian Karina and The Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm.
1968 engaged as dancer by The Royal Swedish Ballet and after education at The Benesh Institute in London engaged as choreologist to the company on initiative by the Ballet Director at the time, Erik Bruhn.
Has during the years notated over 100 ballets and assisted many choreographers like: Robbins, Kylian, Tudor, Massine, Balanchine, Neumeier, MacMillan, Cullberg, Cranko and Ashton.
Is responsible for a major part of The Royal Swedish Ballet repertoire.

First staging outside of Sweden was in 1974 with Robbins Requiem Canticles for Bayericher Staatsoper in Munich.

Among other stagings abroad are: Tudor´s Pillar of Fire for Wiener Staatsoper; Kylian´s Stoolgame for Norwegian Opera; José Limon´s The Moors Pavane for Royal Danish Ballet; Nils Christe´s Before Nightfall for Montreal, Essen and Tallinn; Cranko´s Taming of the Shrew for Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires and Opera di Roma; Makarova´s La Bayadère for La Scala Milan and Finnish National Ballet; Christian Spuck´s Tableau Perdu for Finnish National Ballet.

Also participating in staging of Makarova´s La Bayadere for The Royal Ballet when it was first done in 1989.
Ballet Mistress and Choreologist at Teatro alla Scala Milan 1991-92.
Assisting Natalia Makarova on her production of Giselle for the Royal Swedish Ballet in 2000 and reviving it 2002 and 2013.
Assisting Dame Beryl Grey on her production of The Sleeping Beauty for the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1986 and reviving it in 2002.
Assisting Natalia Makarova on her production of The Sleeping Beauty for Royal Ballet in London 2003.

Has toured with The Royal Swedish Ballet to England, USA, Japan,Spain, France, Italy and Russia, bringing MacMillan´s Manon as the first company to Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

2010 revival of Onegin for Royal Swedish Ballet and La Scala Milan with Roberto Bolle and Massimo Murru.
2010 also revival of Manon for Royal Swedish Ballet.
2011 revival Christian Spuck’sTableau Perdu for Royal Swedish Ballet.
2011 revival Crankos’sOnegin for Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires and Universal Ballet, Seoul, South Korea.
2011 revival Nutcracker by PärIsberg for Tartu, Estonia.
2012 revival Crankos’s Onegin for La Scala Milan, Budapest and Teatro Colon Buenos Aires.