Liam Scarlett died

On April 16, British choreographer Liam Scarlett died in Ipswich at the age of 35. Before that, it became known about the abolition of the premiere of his performance at the Royal Theater of Denmark against the backdrop of accusations of Harassment.

The death of the choreographer is reported by BBC with reference to his family.

Liam Scarlett was born in 1986 in Ipswich, graduated from the Royal Ballet School in London, and since 2006 played on the stage of the Royal Theater Covent Garden. In 2010, he became the youngest choreographer in the history of the London Theater, which put a full -size ballet (“Asfodelian meadows”).

In the future, he also worked with the troupe of the city ballet Miami, the Norwegian National Ballet, Balletboyz (London), the English National Ballet, Ballet San Francisco, the Polish National Ballet, the Queensland Ballet (Brisben). As the magazine Theater notes, the play of the professional career of Liam Scarlett is considered the performance “Swan Lake”, which he put in Covent Garden in the 2017/2018 season.

In the summer of 2019, Covent Garden suspended cooperation with the choreographer after accusations of sexual harassment. Despite the fact that the investigation conducted by the theater did not confirm these charges, in March 2020, the management of Covent Garden announced the dismissal of Liam Scarlett.

On April 16, it became known that the Royal Theater of Denmark, where Liam Scarlett worked as an invited choreographer, canceled the upcoming premiere of his ballet Frankenstein. The basis for this decision was the charges of 2018-2019 in the inappropriate behavior of the choreographer against members of the theater troupe.

“I am shocked by the news of the suicide of Liam Scarlett,” the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky wrote on his Facebook. - What is the tragic loss of rare choreographic talent. How many amazing ballets he could still create! After accusations of inappropriate behavior less than two years ago, the companies in which he worked, removed his ballets from the repertoire and annulled all future contracts with him. <...> Liam knew that he had no future as a choreographer. It killed him. This should not have happened. "

“He was a choreographer in Royal Opera House in Covent Garden since 2010,” the director of Dmitry Chernyakov said the magazine “Theater”. - One of the youngest in the history of the company. A few years ago he was accused of sexual harassment against dancers, and all companies stopped working with him and removed all his performances from the show. All his future contracts were canceled. Nevertheless, it is known that the investigation did not find evidence confirming the accusations. Newspapers evasively or sparingly write about what happened. They write that the causes of death are unknown. What could be unknown here? At the age of 35, being gifted with a choreographer with a brilliant career, to suddenly remain without a future, erased from everywhere, with colleagues who avoid him, as a leper. Everyone turned away from him. It killed him! "