Kristian Lever is a Finnish-British award-winning choreographer. Raised in Helsinki, Finland, he started his dance education at the Helsinki Dance Institute and later with the Finnish National Ballet School. His passion and ambition to dance lead him to continue his training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, as well as later on at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden.
Kristian Lever is a Finnish-British award-winning choreographer. Raised in Helsinki, Finland, he started his dance education at the Helsinki Dance Institute and later with the Finnish National Ballet School. His passion and ambition to dance lead him to continue his training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, as well as later on at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden.
Kristian founded his own production based dance company, Klever Dance. Creating a platform which allows him complete artistic freedom and to collaborate with world renowned dancers, actors, designers and composers. The company is constantly striving to create art that speaks to a larger demographic than the regular theatre goers. Enjoying creating multi disciplinary dance theatre performances, Klever Dance recently premiered Kristian’s latest full evening production «FRAMEWORK», in November 2019, a show crossing borders between theatre and dance. The production was co-written by Kristian and Kellen McDaniel. He was most recently 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. Germany’s TANZ Magazine’s yearbook of 2019, honoured Kristian Lever as «Promising Talent 2019».
