Mette Hønningen

[1] By the time of her 1964 début as the pupil in Flemming Flindt's Enetime (The Private Lesson), she had already been selected to star in the Disney film Ballerina which premiered in 1965.

She demonstrated her abilities as a Bournonville dancer in Napoli (1963) and Sylfiden (1976) but she is remembered above all for her performances in modern ballet, frequently dancing barefoot.

From the late 1960s, she starred in works by the American choreographer Glen Tetley, including Pierrot Lunaire (1968), Greening and Voluntaires (1978), and The Firebird (1981).

She also danced in works choreographed by Alvin Ailey: Memoria (1981), Caverna magica and, above all, the nine-minute Witness which he created specially for her in 1986.

For her 25th anniversary with the Royal Theatre in 1987, which was also a kind of leaving celebration, she danced the three most important works of her career: Witness, Caverna magica and Harald Lander's Études.