Dancers of the Year 2023

For Dance Europe's annual Critics' Choice, our writers have nominated the dancer who has impressed them most during the 2022 - 23 season. We now invite our readers and viewers to nominate their Dancer of the Year from the writers' nominations. Please send your nomination with your name by email to [e-mail]. Closing date: 31 October 2023.
Dancers of the Year 2023
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Fumi Kaneko - THE ROYAL BALLET
Fairy Godmother, Cinderella ch: Ashton
Guillaume Diop - BALLET DE L’OPERA DE PARIS
Etudes ch: Harald Lander
Alina Cojocaru - HAMBURG BALLET
Liliom ch: John Neumeier
Victor Caixeta - DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET
Swan Lake ch: Rudi van Dantzig after Petipa / Ivanov
Marianela Núñez - THE ROYAL BALLET
Cinderella ch: Frederick Ashton
Laurretta Summerscales - BAYERISCHES STAATSBALLETT
Schmetterling ch: Sol León, Paul Lightfoot
Emma Hawes -ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Swan Lake ch: Derek Deane
Giorgi Potskhishvili -DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET / ISH DANCE COLLECTIVE
Dorian ch: Ernst Meisner, Marco Gerris
Elisa Badenes -STUTTGART BALLET
The Sleeping Beauty ch: Marcia Haydée
Laura Morera - THE ROYAL BALLET
Like Water For Chocolate ch: Christopher Wheeldon
Lorenzo Trossello - ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET
Swan Lake ch: Derek Deane
ABT principal dancer Catherine Hurlin is also a nominee but unfortunately no video is available
Dancers of the Year are nominated by DANCE EUROPE’s writers
Ali Mahbouba
Alison Kent
Amanda Jennings
François Fargue
Gerard Davis
Lucy Van Cleef
Maggie Foyer
Marina Harss
Mike Dixon
Robert Penman
Valentina Bonelli
Yuki Nagano
WITH THANKS TO THE PRESS OFFICERS AND MEDIA DEPARTMENTS AT
The Royal Ballet
Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris
Hamburg Ballet
Dutch National Ballet
English National Ballet
Bayerisches Staatsballett
Stuttgart Ballet
for supplying the film extracts

[@susanmuir286]

Nunez 💐

[@ayepol]

For me it's Cojocaru always but I think Morera deserves a final accolade on her long and beautiful career plus she was phenomenal in Like Water for Chocolate

[@jessiahstalbirds.j.794]

Laura Morera truly deserves this recognition after her long and illustrious career with the Royal Ballet. 5 dancers out of 13 from the UK 👍

[@rei6720]

Laura Morera🥳💞

[@mariaelenahermosilla7335]

Marianela Núñez.

[@lauracrimson]

It used to be Larissa Lezhnina for me for the longest time. Now it's Nela Nunez for sure at number one. Cloosely followed by Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball. Honorable mentions go to Zenaida Yanowsky, Matthew Golding and Anna Tsygankova

[@brigidm6279]

Gonna miss Laura Morera.

[@chocolatesouljah]

Thanks to this video I just found out about her! In this short time, I can see she is something to miss!

[@lauracrimson]

Oh! Oh!! Lets not forget Gary Avis!!

[@mariespiritosanto]

Nuñez ❤❤❤❤for me is always the first opition. And her name is missing in the instagram post😢

[@DanceEurope]

Thank you for spotting - fixed!. She was tagged in the post/

[@sergiogalvez504]

Núñez and Kaneko

[@renatacamoriano9043]

Lorenzo Trossello

[@МотяМотя-у6я]

Diop 🎉

[@tamaradovgan5318]

Potshishvili!!!!!!

[@williamdeng1870]

Apparently they are the best dancers of the year. Unfortunately, Russian dancers were not included, since they are called Dancers of the year 2023 in Europe and not European Dancers 2023 after excluding Russia.

[@gussy1964]

Diop ont have to be here! Out of music . Needs a little more time to get mature on stage. Sure he ll be but no now for best dancer. Sorry fans .

[@gianvitotrossello9784]

Lorenzo Trossello