Dancers of the Year 2022

We are very happy to announce that Olga Smirnova has been named Dance Europe Dancer of the Year following the readers' vote has now closed. Olga is featured on the cover and in an filmed interview in the Dec/Jan issue of Dance Europe danceeurope.net
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Nominations by Dance Europe's writers in order of appearance
Paul Marque
BALLET DE L’OPÉRA DE PARIS
Golden Idol Variation, La Bayadère ch: Nureyev
Olga Smirnova
DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET
Raymonda Variation, Raymonda pr: Rachel Beaujean
Christian Bauch
SEMPEROPER BALLETT DRESDEN
Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt ch: Johan Inger
Yui Yonezawa
THE NATIONAL BALLET OF JAPAN
Black Swan Variation, Swan Lake pr: Peter Wright
Young Gyu Choi
DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET
Abd al-Rahman in Raymonda pr: Rachel Beaujean
Catherine Hurlin
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Of Love and Rage ch: Alexei Ratmansky
Alexandre Cagnat
STAATSBALLETT BERLIN
Prince Desiré, The Sleeping Beauty
Fumi Kaneko
THE ROYAL BALLET
Princess Aurora, The Sleeping Beauty
Friedemann Vogel
STUTTGART BALLET
Compilation Video by Stuttgart Ballet
Edward Watson
THE ROYAL BALLET
The Dante Project ch: Wayne McGregor
Grete Sofie Borud Nybakken
NORWEGIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Tatiana in Onegin ch: John Cranko
Cesar Corrales
THE ROYAL BALLET
Like Water for Chocolate ch: Christopher Wheeldon
Dancers of the Year are nominated by DANCE EUROPE’s writers
Ali Mahbouba
Alison Kent
Amanda Jennings
François Fargue
Gerard Davis
Lucy Van Cleef
Maggie Foyer
Marina Harss
Mike Dixon
Robert Penman
Valentina Bonelli
Yuki Nagano
WITH THANKS TO THE PRESS OFFICERS AND MEDIA DEPARTMENTS AT
Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris
Dutch National Ballet
Semperoper Ballett Dresden
The National Ballet of Japan
Staatsballett Berlin
The Royal Ballet
Stuttgart Ballet
Norwegian National Ballet for supplying the film extracts
Compiled by
Dance Europe
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