"... including inappropriate sexual behaviour and bullying at the Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School. Leading classical companies and vocational schools are coming under greater pressure on questions around safeguarding and accountability, either those coming forward or those accused. An independent investigation by the employment consultant Lucinda Harvey Associates found 'there were no matters to pursue in relation to alleged contact with students of the Royal Ballet School,' but neither discounted nor described the allegations. Scarlett made no public response and the ROH ended its relationship with him."
From "Liam Scarlett obituary/Dynamic choreographer whose meteoric rise at the Royal Ballet was halted in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations" (The Guardian).
Scarlett — "the new choreographic wonder boy of British ballet" — was 35, and the cause of death is "undisclosed." If the inference of suicide is wrong, please disclose something. This looks like an infuriating case of the cancel culture destroying one of the most gifted human beings we had in this world.
There was an investigation. It found "no matters to pursue." But he was cut off from his work nonetheless — the work at which he was a genius! What monsters did this! What loss! What vicious cruelty!
"Scarlett made no public response...."
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