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Mikko Nissinen brings international connections, impressive credentials, and a sunny personality to his new role as Boston Ballet's artistic director. Opposite: International Ballet Competition medalist Sarah Lamb, who joined Boston Ballet in 1999, in Jorma Elo's SHARP side of DARK.
The transformation of the Boston Ballet started at the top when Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen arrived to take command. His contract was retroactive to July 2002, but it wasn't disclosed until September, when sighs of relief greeted the public announcement that a leader had been found for the floundering company. However, as director of the Alberta Ballet in Canada, Nissinen still had promises to keep--a last season to finish there before he could take up his new position.
The Boston Ballet had functioned without permanent direction during the 2001-2002 season because Maina Gielgud had resigned the position of artistic director designate before taking on the full-time job, after former Director Anna-Marie Holmes had departed in 2001.
No doubt Nissinen, a soft-spoken, polite young man with an open, sunny manner, caught the attention of the search committee because of his international connections and impeccable credentials. The fact that he is also enormously personable and almost universally well liked, with a boyish persona that belies his considerable experience as well as his ambition, added to the attractive equation. At age 40, with an impressive performing career behind him, plus the expertise gained from directing a smaller company, he looked poised to take on a large challenge.
Nissinen had trained in his native Finland and then at the Vaganova Academy in Russia, followed...
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