Biography
Born in Malmö, Sweden, April 18th 1945.Education: Marieborg College, Norrköping, Sweden, Theatre studies, 1965.
Ballet training: Donya Feuer, Stockholm,
Appointments:
Choreographies
The Officer’s Servant — 1976
Saint George and the Dragon — 1976
Soweto — 1977
The House of Bernarda — 1978
The four Seasons — 1978
Antigone — 1979
Memories of Youth — 1980
Cain and Abel — 1982 (The Royal Ballet, Sweden)
Giselle — 1982
Rite of Spring — 1984
Down North — 1985
Fireplace — 1985
The Park — 1987
Swan Lake — 1987
Grass — 1987
Like Antigone — 1988
Old Children — 1989
Over There — 1990 (Nederlands Dans Theater)
Light Beings — 1991
Journey — 1991 (Nederlands Dans Theater )
Carmen — 1992
Pointless Pastures — 1992 (Hamburg Ballet)
She Was Black — 1995
Solo for Two — 1996
Sleeping Beauty — 1996 (Hamburg Ballet)
A Sort Of — 1997 (Nederlands Dans Theater)
Appartement — 2000 (the Paris Opera )
FLUKE — 2002
Aluminium — 2005 (Compania Nacional de Danza, Madrid)
Memory — 2005
Rättika — 2008 ( Royal Swedish Ballet)
Place — 2008 (for Baryshnikov/Laguna)
The other — 2009 (for Baryshnikov/Ek)
Ickea — 2009, (Laguna, Ek)
Cosi Casa — 2009 Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
Ajö — 2011 (for Sylvie Guillem)
TV Ballets
St. George and the Dragon — 1978
A God Disguised — 1980
Man and his Window — 1983
Grass — 1984
Bernarda — 1986
Giselle — 1987
Swan Lake — 1990
Old and Door — 1991
Wet Woman — 1993
Carmen — 1994
Smoke — 1995
Sleeping Beauty — 1999
Place — 2009
Bye — 2012
Dance Theater
Dance with your Neighbour — 1995 (Unga Klara, Stockholm)
On Malta — 1996 (The Orion Theatre, Stockholm)
Johanna — 1998 (The Orion Theatre, Stockholm)
Tulips — 2003 (NDT)
Theatre
Kagekiyo — 1966 (Marionette Theatre, Stockholm)
Miss Julie — 1967 (Theatre School, Stockholm)
Woyzeck — 1968 (Marionette Theatre, Stockholm)
Andromake — 1968 (The Royal Dramatic Theatre (RDT), Stockholm)
Karlsson-on-the-Roof — 1969 (RDT, Stockholm)
Tolstoj’s Testament — 1969 (RDT, Stockholm)
Mathissen — 1969 (RDT, Stockholm)
Romeo and Juliet — 1969 (RDT, Stockholm)
The Vikings — 1969 (RDT, Stockholm)
A Night in February — 1972 (Norrköping)
Don Juan — 1999 (The Royal Dramatic Theatre)
Andromache — 2001 (RDT, Stockholm)
The Merchant of Venice — 2004 (RDT, Stockholm)
A Dreamplay — 2007 (RDT, Stockholm)
Stopping place — 2009 (Stadsteatern Stockholm)
The Cherry Orchard — 2010, Moscov,(The Royal Dramatic Theatre)
The Ghost Sonata — 2012 (The Royal Dramatic Theatre)
Opera
The Bird — 1969 (Norrköping)
Paris and Helena — 1970 (University College of Opera, Stockholm)
The Magic Flute — 1970 (Univeristy College of Opera, Stockholm)
Orphée — 2007 (Royal Opera, Stockholm)
TV-Theatre
A Shadow — 1973
Guest choreographer at among others:
Grand Théâtre, Geneva
Teatro Filarmonica, Verona
The Royal Opera, Stockholm
The Östgöta Ballet, Linköping
Gothenburg Opera Ballet
Nederlands Dans Theater, The Hague
Kibbutz Dance Company, Israel
The Norwegian Opera, Oslo
The Finnish National Ballet, Helsinki
Stuttgart Ballet
The Lyon Opera
Scapino Ballet, Rotterdam
The Metropolitan Opera, New York
The Hamburg Ballet, Hamburg
Opéra Garnier, Paris
Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf
La Scala, Milano
Zürich Opera Ballet
Baseler Ballet
Turino Ballet
New Carte Blanche, Norway
Hannover Ballet
Dresden Ballet
Poznan Dance Theatre
American Ballet Theatre, New York
Opera Narodowa, Warszawa
Compania Nacional de Danza, Madrid
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Havanna
Photo by Lesley Leslie-Spinks