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Kate Connolly in Berlin

German ballet director offers no apology over dog faeces incident

Marco Goecke
‘The method I used was certainly not good,’ Marco Goecke said of the incident. Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy

An award-winning German ballet company director who smeared his dog’s faeces on the face of a dance critic has failed to apologise, saying he was responding to decades of “annihilatory criticism”.

Marco Goecke admitted in an interview with the broadcaster NDR that his “means of attack” was “certainly not super” but said he had acted on impulse on seeing the journalist, Wiebke Hüster.

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