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Jonathan Olofsson

Jonathan Olofsson joined the Norwegian National Ballet in 2018, after two years with Norwegian National Ballet 2. With the company, he has performed leading roles such as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Solor in La Bayadère and the Prince in The Nutcracker.

He has also performed prominent parts in a wide range of contemporary works, including during the Kylián festival Wings of Time (Gods and Dogs, Petite Mort, Wings of Wax, Forgotten Land), in McGregor’s Chroma, León & Lightfoot’s Schubert and Stop Motion, and Mats Ek’s She Was Black. He has also appeared in world premieres such as Wayne McGregor’s Jocasta’s Line, Elle Sofe Sara and Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir’s Láhppon/Lost and Samantha Lynch’s STUDIO C.

In addition, Olofsson has performed roles such as Gremin in Cranko’s Onegin, Horatio in Øyen’s The Hamlet Complex, and the young Pastor Manders in Ghosts – Ibsen’s Ghosts by Espejord and Moum Aune, as well as danced in productions such as Spuck’s Anna Karenina, Makarova’s La Bayadère and Moum Aune’s Hedda Gabler.

With Norwegian National Ballet UNG, he danced in classical ballets including Cranko’s Onegin, MacMillan’s Manon and Holmes’ Swan Lake. During the company’s tour to Cannes in spring 2018, he performed in Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, and danced the pas de sept from Bournonville’s A Folk Tale at Flammen Kulturhus.

Jonathan Olofsson (b. 1997) began dancing at the Swedish National Ballet School in Gothenburg at the age of ten, before continuing his training at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. As a student, he performed roles including the Prince in Cinderella and Albrecht in Giselle, and appeared in productions such as Flames of Paris, Le Corsaire and Kylián’s Indigo Rose. He has also taken part in competitions such as Stora Daldansen and Prix de Lausanne.

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