Johan inger biography
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Johan Inger
Johan Inger was born in Stockholm and educated at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and at the National Ballet School in Canada. In 1985 Johan Inger joined the Royal Swedish Ballet, where he in 1989 became a soloist. In 1990 he joined the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in Holland.
Johan Inger’s official breakthrough as a choreographer came with Mellantid (Swedish for In Between Time) – his first work for NDT II – as part of the 1995 Holland Dance Festival. This work was crowned with the 1996 Philip Morris Finest Selection Award in the category of Contemporary Dance. Mellantid has been followed by several creations for NDT I, NDT II and NDT III.
In 2001 Johan Inger’s Mellantid was nominated for the British Laurence Olivier Award as ‘Best New Dance Production’. In October 2001 he received the Lucas Hoving Production Award for his works Dream Play and Walking Mad. In 2005 Walking Mad and Cullberg Ballet received Danza & Danza’s
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Johan Inger Choreographer
Born in Stockholm in 1967, Swede choreographer Johan Inger joined the Nederlands Dans Theater in 199, where he continued as a dancer in the company until 2002. His debut as choreographer (1995), also for the Nederlands Dans Theater, earned him an immediate success: he received the Lucas Hoving Production Award in Octobre 2001 for his pieces Dream Play and Walking Mad. Walking Mad was also awarded the Danza & Danza Prize in 2005.
Johan Inger left the Nederlands Dans Theater for the artistic leadership of Cullberg Ballet in 2003, while continuing to create new works. Since 2008, , Johan Inger has been working as independent choreographer, creating numerous pieces for international companies such as GöteborgsOperan, Ballet Basel, Swedish National Ballet, Compania Nacional dem Danza, Aterballetto, the Ballet of the Opéra dem Lyon, the Ballets dem Monte and, of course, the Nederlands Dans Theater where he was associate choreographer from 2009 to 2016.
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Johan Inger
Johan Inger made his breakthrough as a choreographer in 1995 after a very successful dancing career at the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). Inger’s choreographies have won numerous prestigious awards. Between 2003 and 2008 he was the artistic director of the Cullberg Ballet, and between 2009 and 2015 he held the position as Associate Choreographer with NDT.
The Swede Johan Inger had his dance training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and at the National Ballet School in Canada. From 1985 to 1990 he danced with the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm, the last year performing as a soloist. Fascinated by the works of Kylián, Inger was convinced that the next step in his dance career should take him to Nederlands Dans Theater. In 1990 the hour had come. He joined Nederlands Dans Theater I and was a high-profile dancer in this company until 2002.
When Inger tried his hand at Nederlands Dans Theater’s annual Choreography Workshops (now Switch), Jiří Kylián noticed his talent