Michael Nunn (1967-). Dancer, director, choreographer and filmmaker

Michael Nunn was born in London in 1967. He studied at The Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet in 1987. During his career with the company, among his many roles was that of Crown Prince Rudolf in MacMillan’s Mayerling. He also created a leading role in Kenneth MacMillan’s The Judas Tree, and in works by Ashley Page, Matthew Hart and Twyla Tharp. In 1999, along with his colleague William Trevitt, he left The Royal Ballet to become a founding member of K Ballet in Japan.

In 2001, with Trevitt, Nunn founded BalletBoyz, a modern dance group for which he developed his interest in film and photography along with his choreographic and directorial talent. (BalletBoyz actually began with a series of television documentaries on the lives of Nunn and Trevitt as classical ballet dancers.) As a dance company, BalletBoyz has featured works by William Forsythe, Michael Clark, Akram Khan, Christopher Wheeldon, Matthew Bourne and Javier de Frutos, among many others. BalletBoyz has its own dance studio and premises based in Kingston-upon-Thames. Films by the BalletBoyz include pieces on Russell Maliphant and Darcey Bussell, and on Christopher Wheeldon as he worked with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Michael Nunn was appointed an OBE for his services to dance in 2012.