Kristian Lever

Kristian Lever is a Finnish-British award-winning choreographer. Raised in Helsinki, Finland, he started his dance education at the Finnish National Ballet School and continued his training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden.

His repertoire includes ballets by Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Marco Goecke, Natalia Horecna, John Neumeier and others. He has created several works for The National Youth Ballet of Germany, Croatian National Ballet of Rijeka, Croatian National Ballet of Split, Ballet Theatre Tivoli in Copenhagen, festivals of the Royal Danish Ballet, Ballett Vorpommern, as well as for dancers with Nederlands Dans Theater, Hessisches Staatsballett and The Royal Ballet.

Kristian was awarded the prestigious Erik Bruhn Prize representing Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier for his choreography “An Intimate Distance”, hosted by the National Ballet of Canada on March 23, 2019 at the Four Seasons Center in Toronto.