Norwegian National Ballet: Nothing Personal is powerfully moving

Daniel Proietto, Yvonne Øyen, Aarne Kristian Ruutu and ballet school students in Nothing Personal

Daniel Proietto as Patos in Alan Lucien Øyen's Nothing Personal

Alan Lucien Øyen's Nothing Personal

Daniel Proietto, Yvonne Øyen and Nathaniel Liodden in Nothing Personal

Alan Lucien Øyen's Nothing Personal

By Graham Watts, 15 October 2023

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“This Goldstein-inspired scene was made more powerful by the role reversal in their voices”

Reviewed at Oslo Opera House, Main Stage, Oslo on 12 October 2023

Nothing Personal (Alan Lucien Øyen, Daniel Proietto)

Norwegian National Ballet

Solrey, Conductor

Åsmund Færavaag, Set Designer

Ingrid Nylander, Costume Designer

Martin Flack, Lighting Designer, Video

Norwegian National Opera Orchestra

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.