Dance Europe's writers has nominated nine dancers for their outstanding performances during the last season. We now invite our readers to vote for their Dancer of the Year from the nominees. Please send the name of the dancer you ate voting for, with your name, by email to; media@danceeurope.net before 30 November 2024. Duplicate votes will not be counted.
The results will be published in the February / March issue of Dance Europe
Dance Europe would like to thank the companies who supplied the video clips
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Riho Sakamoto
Excerpt from Giselle
Production by Rachel Beaujean and Ricardo Bustamente
after Petipa, Coralli and Perrot
Dutch National Ballet
António Casalinho
Excerpt from John Cranko’s Onegin
Bayerisches Staatsballett
Yu Kurihara
Compilation video by
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Brandon Lawrence
Excerpt from Cathy Marston’s Atonement
Ballett Zürich
Aya Okumura
Excerpt from Ronald Hynd’s Coppélia
The Czech National Ballet
Mira Nadon
(partnered by Peter Walker)
Excerpt from George Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer
New York City Ballet
Kanji Segawa
Excerpt from Sinner Man in Alvin Ailey’s Revelations
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Francesca Hayward
Excerpt from Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody
The Royal Ballet
Antoine Kirscher
Excerpt from Maurice Béjart’s Firebird
Paris Opera Ballet
The dancers were nominated by
Ali Mahbouba
Alison Kent
François Fargue
Gerard Davis
Jeannette Andersen
Joanna Priwieziencew
Leigh Witchel
Maggie Foyer
Mike Dixon
Robert Penman
Valentina Bonelli
Edited by
FotoKaul for Dance Europe
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