{"id":14931,"date":"2026-07-17T03:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkballet2.websitedevsystem.com\/team\/madeleine-onne\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:34","slug":"madeleine-onne","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/team\/madeleine-onne\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Onne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Born in Stockholm, Madeleine Onne established herself as a formidable artistic force to be reckoned with in the international dance world. As one of Sweden\u2019s leading ballerinas, Onne was renowned for her engaging style and dramatic talent. As Principal Dancer of The Royal Swedish Ballet (RSB) from 1984 to 2002, she danced major roles in almost all classical repertoire as well as Kenneth MacMillan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Manon<\/em>, John Cranko\u2019s\u00a0<em>Taming of the Shrew<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Onegin<\/em>, John Neumeier\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Peer Gynt<\/em>, Frederick Ashton\u2019s\u00a0<em>La Fille Mal Gard\u00e9e<\/em>, and ballets by George Balanchine, Birgit Cullberg, Choo-san Goh, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor and Maurice B\u00e9jart. Before joining Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) in 2009, she was Artistic Director of RSB for six years. At HKB, she has commissioned new ballets including Nina Ananiashvili\u2019s\u00a0<em>Don Quixote<\/em>, Cynthia Harvey\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, P\u00e4r Isberg\u2019s\u00a0<em>Pinocchio<\/em>, Terence Kohler\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, Xin-peng Wang\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dream of the Red Chamber<\/em>,\u00a0Peter Quanz\u2019s\u00a0<em>Luminous<\/em>, Jorma Elo\u2019s\u00a0<em>Shape of Glow<\/em>, Kinsun Chan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Black on Black<\/em>\u00a0and Yuh Egami and Ricky Song-wei Hu\u2019s\u00a0<em>Bolero<\/em>. She has also initiated the popular series\u00a0<em>Ballet Classics for Children<\/em>\u00a0by Yuri Ng and expanded the Company\u2019s repertoire with ballets by some of today\u2019s most important choreographers, such as Alexei Ratmansky, Nacho Duato, Fei Bo, Nils Christie, Krzysztof Pastor and Christian Spuck. The repertoire will include ballets by Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n and Christopher Wheeldon in the years to come.\u00a0Under her leadership, HKB has embarked on 13 tours to China, Japan, Canada, and North and South America. Highlights include performances at The Joyce Theatre in New York in 2016, Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Festival in 2012 and 2014 and Fall For Dance Festival in NYC in 2012 and 2016. In addition to its international engagements, the Company has been invited to be one of the partner companies of the prestigious Prix de Lausanne competition. Onne also established exchange programmes between HKB and The Australian Ballet, The Royal Ballet of Flanders and RSB.Onne is passionate about every aspect of ballet, on and off stage. Throughout her career, she was on a number of the Swedish government\u2019s committees responsible for awarding grants to the arts. In 1996, she founded an off-shoot company of RSB called Stockholm 59 Degrees North, which toured during RSB\u2019s summer break. Stockholm 59 Degrees North, featuring 15 of RSB\u2019s leading dancers, presented Swedish and international contemporary choreography. The group has won critical acclaim ever since its spectacular d\u00e9but at the prestigious Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Festival, Massachusetts in 1997.As Artistic Director of RSB, Onne commissioned several ballets (both full-length and one-act ballets) by choreographers like Mats Ek, Christian Spuck, Krzysztof Pastor, Patrice Bart and Nils Christie, as well as a two-act ballet based on the famous children books about Pippi Longstocking choreographed by P\u00e4r Isberg and Karl Dyall. Onne also included in the repertoire ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, Nacho Duato, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kylian, Alonzo King, David Dawson, Mauro Bigonzetti, Christopher Hampson and Jean-Christophe Maillot, among others. During her tenure, Onne initiated RSB\u2019s first tour back to China in 40 years.\u00a0Additionally, Onne has been invited as a jury member for numerous international ballet competitions across Europe as well as in Russia, USA, Cuba, Canada, South America, Japan, Korea, Finland, France and China.Onne\u2019s distinguished list of honours include, among others, the prestigious Royal medal Litteris et Artibus and The Royal Swedish Opera\u2019s Gold Medal of Honour in recognition of her years as a Principal Dancer as well as Artistic Director for RSB. She is one of only five women to have received the title of \u201cDancer of the Swedish Royal Court\u201d from HRH King Carl XVI Gustaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-14931","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=14931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}