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Matz Skoog obituary

by Lyndsey Winship

Dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet who championed contemporary choreographers "I didn't start dancing out of burning desire for it. I did it because I was a well-behaved little boy," Matz Skoog told the journalist Ismene Brown in 2022. When he was an eight-year-old in Stockholm, Skoog's mother suggested he audition for the Royal Swedish Ballet school and, because he was in the habit of doing what…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:24am on February 25, 2026