It is with great sadness that we have received the news of the unfortunate death of our former colleague and friend, Ruan Crighton, in a plane crash in Nepal is all the more devastating for us as it happened the day after his thirty-fourth birthday. Ruan was a great professional and a talented artist. A man with a big heart and an incredible sense of humour whose laughter and positive energy could light up the confines of a theatre. He worked at the Slovak National Theatre Ballet from 2008 to 2013, first in the ballet choir and quickly became a soloist. Among the ballets in which he danced, let us mention titles such as La Bayadère, Giselle, Onegin, Romeo and Juliet, The Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, KY-TIME, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Everest, The Snow White and the Seven Racers, A Beetle Was Born.