Edward Clug

Born in 1973 in Beiuș (Romania), Edward Clug studied at the National Ballet School in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and was hired as a dancer at the Slovenian National Theatre in Maribor in 1991, where he took over the direction of the ballet in 2003. His 2015 full-length ballet Peer Gynt was performed in Vienna, Zurich and Dortmund, among others, while Faust was created for the Zurich company in 2018, The Master and Margarita for the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow in 2021 and The Nutcracker for the Stuttgart Ballet in 2022.

From the 2025/26 season, Edward Clug will be leading the Ballet Company at Theater Dortmund, jointly with Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Jaš Otrin.