Euphoria

Lilit Hakobyan likes crime novels. "With my way of thinking, I could possibly make a good investigator," says the dancer and choreographer, laughing. "Perhaps there's a connection between choreography and the world of crime: Both are puzzles, in both areas you try to put the pieces together." Hakobyan currently swears by author Bella Mackie, known among connoisseurs for novels such as How to Kill Your Family and What a Way to Go: "I love the way she writes; it's sarcastic, it's funny, but they're still crime stories." The fact that the conversation turns to the dancer's consumption of crime novels is the result of a journalistic trick: "What would you have done if you hadn't become an artist?" is the kind of question you ask when you want to elegantly bring a well-rounded interview to a ...