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French Benesh Choreologist Gregory Mislin joined The Royal Ballet in 2014 and has since written new creations of works, including Liam Scarlett’s Sweet Violets, The Age of Anxiety, Frankenstein, Symphonic Dances, and Swan Lake, Hofesh Shechter’s Untouchable, and Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern, as well as working on the current repertory of The Royal Ballet.
Mislin trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School and graduated into Paris Opera Ballet. He later joined the Bavarian State Ballet as a soloist, dancing ballets by Marius Petipa, Serge Lifar, Bronislava Nijinska, Leonid Massine, Mikhail Fokine, John Cranko, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Kenneth MacMillan, Frederick Ashton, Rudolf Nureyev, Patrice Bart, Ray Barra, Peter Wright, John Neumeier, Merce Cunningham, Lucinda Childs, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Martin Schläpfer, Jiří Kylián, Hans Van Manen, and Jacopo Godani, among others.
He graduated from the Benesh Institute as a choreologist in 2012, and that year also gained the French State Diploma (DE) as a dance teacher. Work away from The Royal Ballet includes remounting Ivan Liška’s Le Corsaire for Finnish National Ballet and Boston Ballet and Frankenstein for San Francisco Ballet, as well assisting Bavarian State Ballet on ballets including Ray Barra’s Swan Lake.