Erik Naslund

Erik Naslund is a well-known Swedish author and museum director specialising in the performing and visual arts. His books include biographies of the Swedish dancers and choreographers Birgit Cullberg (1978) and Carina Ari (1984), the painter Nils Dardel (1988) and the sculptor Carl Milles (1991). Since 1989 he has been the director of the Dance Museum in Stockholm and has curated many exhibitions, there and abroad, notably of Russian art. As a ballet librettist, he has created The Nutcracker ...See more

Erik Naslund is a well-known Swedish author and museum director specialising in the performing and visual arts. His books include biographies of the Swedish dancers and choreographers Birgit Cullberg (1978) and Carina Ari (1984), the painter Nils Dardel (1988) and the sculptor Carl Milles (1991). Since 1989 he has been the director of the Dance Museum in Stockholm and has curated many exhibitions, there and abroad, notably of Russian art. As a ballet librettist, he has created The Nutcracker (1995) and Gustav III (2008) for the Royal Swedish Ballet. See less