Currently a principal dancer with Royal Swedish Ballet, Jan-Erik trained at the Royal Opera Ballet School in Sweden and at the Swedish Ballet School. He joined the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1987, and became Principal Dancer in 1993. He has been awarded various prizes and in December 2000 H.M. the King of Sweden honoured him by giving him the title of Royal Court Dancer.

He has danced prinicpal roles in ballets including Swan Lake, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, Mayerling, La Bayadère and La Syphide, as well as many more contemporary ballets. Jan-Erik joined English National Ballet in Autumn 2001, and has since danced prinicpal roles in Cinderella, The Nutcracker, and Romeo and Juliet, as well as creating the lead male role in Double Concerto.

Jan Erik's page at Royal Swedish Ballet