Associate artists
Sadler's Wells Associates are key to the artistic vision for the theatre which marks the transition of Sadler's Wells from receiving house to producing house, and firmly establishes it as the foremost dance venue in the UK.
The appointments of Sadler's Wells Associate Artists gives them the opportunity to work alongside other collaborators and dancers and develop concepts and ideas for large-scale pieces.
Associate Artists
Balletboyz
Michael Nunn & WilliamTrevitt
Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, collectively known as the Balletboyz, have been hailed as pioneers for making dance accessible and reaching a wider audience through their celebrated stage and television work. They became Associate Artists at Sadler's Wells in 2005.
They met at the Royal Ballet School in the late 1980s and formed a lasting friendship that has taken them through a series of highly successful creative ventures. They came to public prominence in 1999 with their popular Channel 4 documentaries Ballet Boyz and Ballet Boyz II which charted their departure from The Royal Ballet and their subsequent solo seasons in Japan.
In 2000 they co-founded their own dance company George Piper Dances and went on to win numerous awards and nominations including the 2002 Theatrical Management Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for their show Critics Choice ***** and the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for their commission Broken Fall. George Piper Dances, now renamed Balletboyz, has since danced in five seasons at Sadler's Wells, most recently with their 2008 show Greatest Hits! They continue to develop groundbreaking education initiatives, particularly working with boys in dance.
Michael and William's film company formed in 2005 has since gone on to win major commissions from all the major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky as well as working on ground breaking multi-disciplinary digital content for The Royal Ballet, The Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre and numerous independent artists whose work is shown in galleries around the world. Their documentary Strictly Bolshoi won the 2008 International Emmy and the prestigious Rose D'Or for Best Arts Documentary.
2010 saw the launch of their latest venture, The Talent; eight exceptional male dancers in an exciting new show featuring new choreography and films.
www.balletboyz.com
Michael Nunn & WilliamTrevitt
Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, collectively known as the Balletboyz, have been hailed as pioneers for making dance accessible and reaching a wider audience through their celebrated stage and television work. They became Associate Artists at Sadler's Wells in 2005.
They met at the Royal Ballet School in the late 1980s and formed a lasting friendship that has taken them through a series of highly successful creative ventures. They came to public prominence in 1999 with their popular Channel 4 documentaries Ballet Boyz and Ballet Boyz II which charted their departure from The Royal Ballet and their subsequent solo seasons in Japan.
In 2000 they co-founded their own dance company George Piper Dances and went on to win numerous awards and nominations including the 2002 Theatrical Management Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for their show Critics Choice ***** and the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for their commission Broken Fall. George Piper Dances, now renamed Balletboyz, has since danced in five seasons at Sadler's Wells, most recently with their 2008 show Greatest Hits! They continue to develop groundbreaking education initiatives, particularly working with boys in dance.
Michael and William's film company formed in 2005 has since gone on to win major commissions from all the major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky as well as working on ground breaking multi-disciplinary digital content for The Royal Ballet, The Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre and numerous independent artists whose work is shown in galleries around the world. Their documentary Strictly Bolshoi won the 2008 International Emmy and the prestigious Rose D'Or for Best Arts Documentary.
2010 saw the launch of their latest venture, The Talent; eight exceptional male dancers in an exciting new show featuring new choreography and films.
www.balletboyz.com
Matthew Bourne
Matthew Bourne is widely hailed as one of the UK's most popular and successful Choreographer/ Directors. He is the creator of the world's longest running ballet production, a five-time Olivier Award-winner, and the only British director to have won a Tony Award for both Best Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical.
Bourne started training to be a dancer at the comparatively late age of 22. He studied Dance Theatre and Choreography at The Laban Centre, graduating in 1985. Matthew danced professionally for 14 years creating many roles in his own work. In 1999 he gave his final performance playing The Private Secretary in the Broadway production of Swan Lake.
Matthew Bourne was the Artistic Director of his first company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, from 1987 until 2002. During those 15 years AMP became one of the UK's most innovative and popular dance/theatre company. In 2002 Matthew launched his latest company, New Adventures .
Bourne has also created choreography for several major revivals of classic musicals (Oliver! Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady in the West End) and worked in film and television. Screen adaptations of his stage work include Swan Lake (Emmy nomination), The Car Man and Nutcracker!
Matthew Bourne has been nominated twice as Best Director at the Olivier Awards and his achievements in choreography have been recognised with over 30 international awards. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Dance and in 2003 and was the recipient of the prestigious Hamburg Shakespeare Prize for the Arts.
www.new-adventures.net
Matthew Bourne is widely hailed as one of the UK's most popular and successful Choreographer/ Directors. He is the creator of the world's longest running ballet production, a five-time Olivier Award-winner, and the only British director to have won a Tony Award for both Best Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical.
Bourne started training to be a dancer at the comparatively late age of 22. He studied Dance Theatre and Choreography at The Laban Centre, graduating in 1985. Matthew danced professionally for 14 years creating many roles in his own work. In 1999 he gave his final performance playing The Private Secretary in the Broadway production of Swan Lake.
Matthew Bourne was the Artistic Director of his first company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, from 1987 until 2002. During those 15 years AMP became one of the UK's most innovative and popular dance/theatre company. In 2002 Matthew launched his latest company, New Adventures .
Bourne has also created choreography for several major revivals of classic musicals (Oliver! Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady in the West End) and worked in film and television. Screen adaptations of his stage work include Swan Lake (Emmy nomination), The Car Man and Nutcracker!
Matthew Bourne has been nominated twice as Best Director at the Olivier Awards and his achievements in choreography have been recognised with over 30 international awards. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Dance and in 2003 and was the recipient of the prestigious Hamburg Shakespeare Prize for the Arts.
www.new-adventures.net
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's debut as a choreographer was in 1999 with Andrew Wale's contemporary musicalAnonymous Society. Since then, he has made more than 20 fully-fledged choreographic pieces and picked up a slew of prestigious awards. In 2008, Sadler's Wells named him as an Associate Artist, and since 2010 he has been artistic director of the Festival Equilibrio in Rome.
While Cherkaoui's initial pieces (Rien de Rien, Foi, Tempus Fugit) were made as a core member of the Belgian collective Les Ballets C. de la B., he also made work that both expanded and consolidated his artist vision: Ook (2000) with Nienke Reehorst and the mentally disabled actors of Theater Stap, D'avant (2002) with Damien Jalet and dancer-singers of the Sasha Waltz & Guests company and zero degrees (2005) with Akram Khan. Between 2006-2009, during his stint as associate artist at Het Toneelhuis in Antwerp, he extended his exploration of the equations between self and otherness through Sutra (2008), his dialogue with the warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple and Dunas (2009) alongside flamenco bailaora, Maria Pagés, and Play (2010) with kutchipudi danseuse Shantala Shivalingappa.
In 2010, with the founding of his company Eastman in Antwerp, Cherkaoui began a new phase in his trajectory, marked by the multiple-award-winning Babel, co-choreographed with Damien Jalet and designed by Antony Gormley. TeZukA (2011) – his homage to Osamu Tezuka, the founding father of modern manga – and Puz/zle (2012) followed.
He continues to work with a variety of theatres, opera houses and ballet companies from the world (Dutch National Ballet, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Paris Opera Ballet). Cherkaoui also received much international acclaim for his choreography in Joe Wright’s feature film Anna Karenina (2012).
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's debut as a choreographer was in 1999 with Andrew Wale's contemporary musicalAnonymous Society. Since then, he has made more than 20 fully-fledged choreographic pieces and picked up a slew of prestigious awards. In 2008, Sadler's Wells named him as an Associate Artist, and since 2010 he has been artistic director of the Festival Equilibrio in Rome.While Cherkaoui's initial pieces (Rien de Rien, Foi, Tempus Fugit) were made as a core member of the Belgian collective Les Ballets C. de la B., he also made work that both expanded and consolidated his artist vision: Ook (2000) with Nienke Reehorst and the mentally disabled actors of Theater Stap, D'avant (2002) with Damien Jalet and dancer-singers of the Sasha Waltz & Guests company and zero degrees (2005) with Akram Khan. Between 2006-2009, during his stint as associate artist at Het Toneelhuis in Antwerp, he extended his exploration of the equations between self and otherness through Sutra (2008), his dialogue with the warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple and Dunas (2009) alongside flamenco bailaora, Maria Pagés, and Play (2010) with kutchipudi danseuse Shantala Shivalingappa.
In 2010, with the founding of his company Eastman in Antwerp, Cherkaoui began a new phase in his trajectory, marked by the multiple-award-winning Babel, co-choreographed with Damien Jalet and designed by Antony Gormley. TeZukA (2011) – his homage to Osamu Tezuka, the founding father of modern manga – and Puz/zle (2012) followed.
He continues to work with a variety of theatres, opera houses and ballet companies from the world (Dutch National Ballet, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Paris Opera Ballet). Cherkaoui also received much international acclaim for his choreography in Joe Wright’s feature film Anna Karenina (2012).
Jonzi D
Jonzi D has been actively involved in British hip hop
culture, rapping and b-boying in clubs and on the street
since the early 1980s. Since graduating from London
Contemporary Dance School, Jonzi has been
committed to the development of hip hop theatre. He
was an Associate Artist at The Place and has performed
and created dance theatre pieces worldwide.
Jonzi D is an Associate Artist of Sadler's Wells and is based at the theatre. Jonzi devised and directed TAG...just writing name in 2006, IVAN in 2006 and Markus the Sadist, a rap theatre piece in 2009. All pieces have successfully toured the UK to critical acclaim. He has also devised, choreographed and featured in various hip hopinspired fashion shows. Jonzi D is the curator and host of the acclaimed Breakin' Convention, the international hip hop dance theatre festival, nominated for a South Bank Show award and now in its tenth year.
As an MC/poet, Jonzi D has worked with The Roots, Steve Williamson, Mannafest, Lenny Henry, MC Mell 'O' and toured with Gangstarr. He appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Channel 4's Faking It, and his short films Silence da bitchin and Aeroplane Man were also screened on Channel 4. He is creator and host of the successful Apricot Jam and Vertika Cypher infamous hip hop music and open mic sessions. He presented the 2005 4Dance for Channel 4 and was recently the performance mentor for Urban Classic at Hackney Empire in February 2006. In 2007 he was listed as one of the top ten positive black musical role models by MOBO and directed a new piece, Hectic Dialectic, as part of the Rozamira Festival in Moscow.
www.jonzi-d.co.uk
Jonzi D has been actively involved in British hip hop
culture, rapping and b-boying in clubs and on the street
since the early 1980s. Since graduating from London
Contemporary Dance School, Jonzi has been
committed to the development of hip hop theatre. He
was an Associate Artist at The Place and has performed
and created dance theatre pieces worldwide.
Jonzi D is an Associate Artist of Sadler's Wells and is based at the theatre. Jonzi devised and directed TAG...just writing name in 2006, IVAN in 2006 and Markus the Sadist, a rap theatre piece in 2009. All pieces have successfully toured the UK to critical acclaim. He has also devised, choreographed and featured in various hip hopinspired fashion shows. Jonzi D is the curator and host of the acclaimed Breakin' Convention, the international hip hop dance theatre festival, nominated for a South Bank Show award and now in its tenth year.
As an MC/poet, Jonzi D has worked with The Roots, Steve Williamson, Mannafest, Lenny Henry, MC Mell 'O' and toured with Gangstarr. He appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Channel 4's Faking It, and his short films Silence da bitchin and Aeroplane Man were also screened on Channel 4. He is creator and host of the successful Apricot Jam and Vertika Cypher infamous hip hop music and open mic sessions. He presented the 2005 4Dance for Channel 4 and was recently the performance mentor for Urban Classic at Hackney Empire in February 2006. In 2007 he was listed as one of the top ten positive black musical role models by MOBO and directed a new piece, Hectic Dialectic, as part of the Rozamira Festival in Moscow.
www.jonzi-d.co.uk
Sylvie Guillem
Born in Paris, Sylvie Guillem began as a gymnast with Olympic hopes, but at 11 when she and her group attended the Paris Opera's ballet school for polishing, she switched ambitions. Joining the Paris Company at 16, she raced up the hierarchy. Rudolf Nureyev, appointed Artistic Director of the company as she began her third year, gave her a small role in his debut production, Raymonda, and then in December 1984, when Sylvie was 19, Nureyev appointed her étoile, star dancer.
Over the next few years many visiting choreographers including William Forsythe Bob Wilson and Maurice Béjart put Guillem into their creations but in 1988 she resigned and made London her main base, with a guest contract at The Royal Ballet. For The Royal Ballet, she danced Principal roles in Ashton's Cinderella, Marguerite and Armand, A Month in the Country, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, Manon, Winter Dreams, Mats Ek 's Carmen and Robbins' The Concert as well as the classic roles.
For the present Guillem favours collaborations with modern choreographers and theatre directors. In December 2003 she collaborated with Michael Nunn, William Trevitt and Russell Maliphant on Broken Fall. This in turn led to a second Maliphant season in 2005, with two premieres including a solo for Guillem and PUSH, a pas de deux with Russell Maliphant. In 2006, she collaborated with Akram Khan on Sacred Monsters and in 2009 with Robert Lepage and Russell Maliphant on a theatre/dance project Eonnagata.
Guillem is a highly decorated artist and her awards include the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Officier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite, Officier des Arts et Lettres and in Britain, an honorary CBE.
www.sylvieguillem.com
Born in Paris, Sylvie Guillem began as a gymnast with Olympic hopes, but at 11 when she and her group attended the Paris Opera's ballet school for polishing, she switched ambitions. Joining the Paris Company at 16, she raced up the hierarchy. Rudolf Nureyev, appointed Artistic Director of the company as she began her third year, gave her a small role in his debut production, Raymonda, and then in December 1984, when Sylvie was 19, Nureyev appointed her étoile, star dancer.
Over the next few years many visiting choreographers including William Forsythe Bob Wilson and Maurice Béjart put Guillem into their creations but in 1988 she resigned and made London her main base, with a guest contract at The Royal Ballet. For The Royal Ballet, she danced Principal roles in Ashton's Cinderella, Marguerite and Armand, A Month in the Country, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, Manon, Winter Dreams, Mats Ek 's Carmen and Robbins' The Concert as well as the classic roles.
For the present Guillem favours collaborations with modern choreographers and theatre directors. In December 2003 she collaborated with Michael Nunn, William Trevitt and Russell Maliphant on Broken Fall. This in turn led to a second Maliphant season in 2005, with two premieres including a solo for Guillem and PUSH, a pas de deux with Russell Maliphant. In 2006, she collaborated with Akram Khan on Sacred Monsters and in 2009 with Robert Lepage and Russell Maliphant on a theatre/dance project Eonnagata.
Guillem is a highly decorated artist and her awards include the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Officier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite, Officier des Arts et Lettres and in Britain, an honorary CBE.
www.sylvieguillem.com
Michael Hulls
Michael trained in dance and theatre at Dartington College and was awarded a bursary by the Arts Council to attend dance lighting workshops with Jennifer Tipton in New York and Paris.
Over the last 20 years he has worked exclusively in dance, particularly with choreographer Russell Maliphant. Their collaborations have won international critical acclaim and many awards: Sheer won a Time Out Award for Outstanding Collaboration, Choice won a South Bank Show Dance Award, Push, with Sylvie Guillem, won four major awards including the Olivier for Best New Dance Production and AfterLight won two Critics Circle awards. Michael and Russell also collaborated on Broken Fall, commissioned by Ballet Boyz, which also featured Sylvie Guillem and won an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. In 2007 Michael's and Russell's work was the subject of Ballet Boyz's Channel 4 documentary Light and Dance and The Daily Telegraph hailed their collaboration as 'possibly the most important creative partnership in modern British dance.'
Michael has also worked with Ballet Boyz on their productions of Russell's Critical Mass, Torsion and most recently on the highly acclaimed Fallen. He also lit the Ballet Boyz's productions of Christopher Wheeldon's Mesmerics and Liam Scarlett's Serpent.
Eonnagata, Michael's collaboration with Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage and Russell Maliphant, for which Michael won the 2009 Knight of Illumination Award for Dance, opened at Sadler's Wells and along with AfterLight led to Michael being nominated for the 2010 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, and a second Knight of Illumination Award.
Michael has also worked over many years with Akram Khan on his pieces Fix, Rush, In-I his duet with Juliette Binoche, and most recently on his highly acclaimed full length solo DESH, winner of the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, and In the Shadow of Man. He is also working on Akram's forthcoming work duet with Flamenco virtuoso Israel Galvan.
Michael trained in dance and theatre at Dartington College and was awarded a bursary by the Arts Council to attend dance lighting workshops with Jennifer Tipton in New York and Paris.
Over the last 20 years he has worked exclusively in dance, particularly with choreographer Russell Maliphant. Their collaborations have won international critical acclaim and many awards: Sheer won a Time Out Award for Outstanding Collaboration, Choice won a South Bank Show Dance Award, Push, with Sylvie Guillem, won four major awards including the Olivier for Best New Dance Production and AfterLight won two Critics Circle awards. Michael and Russell also collaborated on Broken Fall, commissioned by Ballet Boyz, which also featured Sylvie Guillem and won an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. In 2007 Michael's and Russell's work was the subject of Ballet Boyz's Channel 4 documentary Light and Dance and The Daily Telegraph hailed their collaboration as 'possibly the most important creative partnership in modern British dance.'
Michael has also worked with Ballet Boyz on their productions of Russell's Critical Mass, Torsion and most recently on the highly acclaimed Fallen. He also lit the Ballet Boyz's productions of Christopher Wheeldon's Mesmerics and Liam Scarlett's Serpent.
Eonnagata, Michael's collaboration with Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage and Russell Maliphant, for which Michael won the 2009 Knight of Illumination Award for Dance, opened at Sadler's Wells and along with AfterLight led to Michael being nominated for the 2010 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, and a second Knight of Illumination Award.
Michael has also worked over many years with Akram Khan on his pieces Fix, Rush, In-I his duet with Juliette Binoche, and most recently on his highly acclaimed full length solo DESH, winner of the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, and In the Shadow of Man. He is also working on Akram's forthcoming work duet with Flamenco virtuoso Israel Galvan.
Michael Keegan-Dolan
Born in 1969, Michael Keegan-Dolan lives in his family ancestral home in County Longford. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre.
Productions for Fabulous Beast include: Sunday Lunch (1997), Fragile (1999), The Flowerbed (2000), The Christmas Show (2001), Giselle (2003), The Bull (2005), James Son of James (2007), The Rite of Spring (2009), Helen and Hell (2010), and Rian (2011).
Most recently, he directed and choreographed a new production of Handel's masterpiece Julius Caesar, at the London Coliseum, for English National Opera. Other choreographic work includes: Ariodante, Manon and Alcina (English National Opera); The Rake's Progress (La Monnaie, Royal Opera House); Faust and Macbeth (Royal Opera House); The Duchess of Malfi, Carousel and The Oedipus Plays (National Theatre); Idomeneo (Royal Flanders Opera); The Love for Three Oranges (Cologne Opera); Pique Dame and Ariodante (Bavarian State Opera).
Rian was nominated for a 2011 Irish Times Theatre Award. Giselle, The Bull and The Rite of Spring were all nominated for Olivier awards and in 2008 Michael won the UK Critics' Circle Award for Best Modern Choreography for The Bull. In 2004, Giselle won the Judges' Special Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Both Michael and Fabulous Beast received a nomination for the 2009 Europe Prize New Theatrical Realities.
Michael and writer Enda Walsh were awarded the 2012 Meadows Prize by the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, Dallas (SMU), and they spent three weeks in residence at SMU, workshopping a new dance theatre production.
Born in 1969, Michael Keegan-Dolan lives in his family ancestral home in County Longford. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre.
Productions for Fabulous Beast include: Sunday Lunch (1997), Fragile (1999), The Flowerbed (2000), The Christmas Show (2001), Giselle (2003), The Bull (2005), James Son of James (2007), The Rite of Spring (2009), Helen and Hell (2010), and Rian (2011).
Most recently, he directed and choreographed a new production of Handel's masterpiece Julius Caesar, at the London Coliseum, for English National Opera. Other choreographic work includes: Ariodante, Manon and Alcina (English National Opera); The Rake's Progress (La Monnaie, Royal Opera House); Faust and Macbeth (Royal Opera House); The Duchess of Malfi, Carousel and The Oedipus Plays (National Theatre); Idomeneo (Royal Flanders Opera); The Love for Three Oranges (Cologne Opera); Pique Dame and Ariodante (Bavarian State Opera).
Rian was nominated for a 2011 Irish Times Theatre Award. Giselle, The Bull and The Rite of Spring were all nominated for Olivier awards and in 2008 Michael won the UK Critics' Circle Award for Best Modern Choreography for The Bull. In 2004, Giselle won the Judges' Special Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Both Michael and Fabulous Beast received a nomination for the 2009 Europe Prize New Theatrical Realities.
Michael and writer Enda Walsh were awarded the 2012 Meadows Prize by the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, Dallas (SMU), and they spent three weeks in residence at SMU, workshopping a new dance theatre production.
Akram Khan
Akram Khan is one of the most acclaimed choreographers of his generation working in Britain today. Born in London into a family of Bangladeshi origin, he began dancing at seven and studied with the renowned kathak dancer and teacher Sri Pratap Pawar.
Khan began presenting solo performances of his work in the late 1990s, maintaining his commitment to classical kathak as well as developing modern work. He was Choreographer-in-Residence and later Associate Artist at the Southbank Centre London. Khan is currently an Associate Artist of MC2: Grenoble and Sadler's Wells, London in a special international co-operation.
DESH (2011), Khan's first full-length contemporary solo, is a part-autobiographical work which is at once intimate yet epic. Khan's latest contemporary ensemble work Vertical Road (2010) and recent creation Gnosis (2009), where he combined his classical Indian and contemporary dance roots, received critical acclaim and continue to tour worldwide.
Khan's notable company works are bahok (2008), originally produced in collaboration with National Ballet of China; Variations (2006), a production with London Sinfonietta in celebration of Steve Reichs 70th birthday; ma (2004), with text by Hanif Kureishi; Kaash (2002), a collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor and composer Nitin Sawhney.
Besides his company work, Khan also created duets: In-I (2008) with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche, Sacred Monsters (2006) with internationally acclaimed dancer Sylvie Guillem, and award-winning zero degrees (2005) with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in collaboration with Antony Gormley and Nitin Sawhney.
In 2006 Khan was invited by Kylie Minogue to choreograph a section of her Showgirl concert, which opened in Australia in November that year. He has also been chosen to choreograph a section of the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Khan has been the recipient of numerous awards throughout his career including the Laurence Olivier Award, the prestigious ISPA (International Society for the Performing Arts) Distinguished Artist Award, South Bank Sky Arts Award, UK Critics' Circle National Dance Award and The Age Critics Award (Australia). Khan was awarded an MBE for services to dance in 2005. He is also an Honorary Graduate of Roehampton and De Montfort Universities, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Laban.
www.akramkhancompany.net
Akram Khan is one of the most acclaimed choreographers of his generation working in Britain today. Born in London into a family of Bangladeshi origin, he began dancing at seven and studied with the renowned kathak dancer and teacher Sri Pratap Pawar.
Khan began presenting solo performances of his work in the late 1990s, maintaining his commitment to classical kathak as well as developing modern work. He was Choreographer-in-Residence and later Associate Artist at the Southbank Centre London. Khan is currently an Associate Artist of MC2: Grenoble and Sadler's Wells, London in a special international co-operation.
DESH (2011), Khan's first full-length contemporary solo, is a part-autobiographical work which is at once intimate yet epic. Khan's latest contemporary ensemble work Vertical Road (2010) and recent creation Gnosis (2009), where he combined his classical Indian and contemporary dance roots, received critical acclaim and continue to tour worldwide.
Khan's notable company works are bahok (2008), originally produced in collaboration with National Ballet of China; Variations (2006), a production with London Sinfonietta in celebration of Steve Reichs 70th birthday; ma (2004), with text by Hanif Kureishi; Kaash (2002), a collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor and composer Nitin Sawhney.
Besides his company work, Khan also created duets: In-I (2008) with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche, Sacred Monsters (2006) with internationally acclaimed dancer Sylvie Guillem, and award-winning zero degrees (2005) with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in collaboration with Antony Gormley and Nitin Sawhney.
In 2006 Khan was invited by Kylie Minogue to choreograph a section of her Showgirl concert, which opened in Australia in November that year. He has also been chosen to choreograph a section of the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Khan has been the recipient of numerous awards throughout his career including the Laurence Olivier Award, the prestigious ISPA (International Society for the Performing Arts) Distinguished Artist Award, South Bank Sky Arts Award, UK Critics' Circle National Dance Award and The Age Critics Award (Australia). Khan was awarded an MBE for services to dance in 2005. He is also an Honorary Graduate of Roehampton and De Montfort Universities, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Laban.
www.akramkhancompany.net
Russell Maliphant
Russell Maliphant trained at the Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Company before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance. As a dancer he worked with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre, Michael Clark & Company, Laurie Booth and Rosemary Butcher and also studied anatomy, physiology and bio-mechanics. He became certified as a practitioner of the Rolfing Method of Structural Integration in 1994 and this has subsequently informed both his teaching and choreographic work.
He created his first solo in 1992 and formed the Russell Maliphant Company in 1996 which has sought to integrate and explore elements from a diverse range of body practices and techniques, including classical ballet, contact improvisation, yoga, capoeira, tai chi & chi gung. He has collaborated closely with the lighting designer Michael Hulls, and in addition to working with his own company of dancers, has set works on renowned companies and artists including: Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage, The Ballet Boyz, Lyon Opera Ballet, Ricochet Dance Company, CobosMika, The Batsheva Ensemble, and Ballet de Lorraine.
He has been the recipient of several awards including two Olivier Awards for, a Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Choreography (Modern) and a South Bank Show Award.
www.rmcompany.co.uk
Russell Maliphant trained at the Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Company before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance. As a dancer he worked with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre, Michael Clark & Company, Laurie Booth and Rosemary Butcher and also studied anatomy, physiology and bio-mechanics. He became certified as a practitioner of the Rolfing Method of Structural Integration in 1994 and this has subsequently informed both his teaching and choreographic work.
He created his first solo in 1992 and formed the Russell Maliphant Company in 1996 which has sought to integrate and explore elements from a diverse range of body practices and techniques, including classical ballet, contact improvisation, yoga, capoeira, tai chi & chi gung. He has collaborated closely with the lighting designer Michael Hulls, and in addition to working with his own company of dancers, has set works on renowned companies and artists including: Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage, The Ballet Boyz, Lyon Opera Ballet, Ricochet Dance Company, CobosMika, The Batsheva Ensemble, and Ballet de Lorraine.
He has been the recipient of several awards including two Olivier Awards for, a Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Choreography (Modern) and a South Bank Show Award.
www.rmcompany.co.uk
Kate Prince
Kate is the Artistic Director of ZooNation Dance Company which she founded in 2002. In May 2010 she became an Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells and ZooNation became a Resident Company.
In 2008 Kate directed and co-choreographed ZooNation’s five-star award-winning production Into the Hoods at the Novello Theatre which became both the first ever Hip Hop dance show to open in the West End and the longest running dance show in the West End’s history. She also choreographed the cast of Into the Hoods for a special performance at Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Celebrations in Hyde Park.
In 2011 Kate wrote, directed and co-choreographed ZooNation’s production Some Like it Hip Hopat Sadler’s Wells Peacock Theatre which enjoyed a critically successful sell-out run. Some Like it Hip Hop will be returning to London again in the Autumn of 2012, before embarking on a UK and international tour.
Kate was lead choreographer for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Handover Ceremonies with dancers from ZooNation, CandoCo and The Royal Opera House.
Kate has choreographed for two seasons of So You Think You Can Dance (BBC) and for the movie StreetDance 3D. She also choreographed a special performance at the Laurence Olivier Awards 2011to music from West Side Story played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Kate also choreographed for Shoes directed by Stephen Mear.
Television includes: So You Think You Can Dance (BBC), Laurence Olivier Awards (BBC), Top of the Pops (BBC), CD:UK (ITV), Smash Hits Pollwinners Party (Channel 4), Strictly Dance Fever (BBC), Blue Peter (BBC), When Will I Be Famous (BBC), Sport Relief (BBC), Discomania (ITV), The Album Chart Show (Channel 4), Whatever (Sky), Popworld (Channel 4), The Paul O’Grady Show (Channel 4).
Music Video includes: Duck Sauce – Anyway, Utah Saints – Something Good 08, Diagram of the Heart – If I Were You, The Saturdays – Up!, HtwoO ft. Platnum – What’s it Gonna Be, Sam Obernik – Baditude, Matt Willis – Hey Kid, V - Can You Feel It.
Kate is a board member of Dance UK and a graduate of Edinburgh University with an MA in General Arts.
Kate is the Artistic Director of ZooNation Dance Company which she founded in 2002. In May 2010 she became an Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells and ZooNation became a Resident Company. In 2008 Kate directed and co-choreographed ZooNation’s five-star award-winning production Into the Hoods at the Novello Theatre which became both the first ever Hip Hop dance show to open in the West End and the longest running dance show in the West End’s history. She also choreographed the cast of Into the Hoods for a special performance at Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Celebrations in Hyde Park.
In 2011 Kate wrote, directed and co-choreographed ZooNation’s production Some Like it Hip Hopat Sadler’s Wells Peacock Theatre which enjoyed a critically successful sell-out run. Some Like it Hip Hop will be returning to London again in the Autumn of 2012, before embarking on a UK and international tour.
Kate was lead choreographer for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Handover Ceremonies with dancers from ZooNation, CandoCo and The Royal Opera House.
Kate has choreographed for two seasons of So You Think You Can Dance (BBC) and for the movie StreetDance 3D. She also choreographed a special performance at the Laurence Olivier Awards 2011to music from West Side Story played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Kate also choreographed for Shoes directed by Stephen Mear.
Television includes: So You Think You Can Dance (BBC), Laurence Olivier Awards (BBC), Top of the Pops (BBC), CD:UK (ITV), Smash Hits Pollwinners Party (Channel 4), Strictly Dance Fever (BBC), Blue Peter (BBC), When Will I Be Famous (BBC), Sport Relief (BBC), Discomania (ITV), The Album Chart Show (Channel 4), Whatever (Sky), Popworld (Channel 4), The Paul O’Grady Show (Channel 4).
Music Video includes: Duck Sauce – Anyway, Utah Saints – Something Good 08, Diagram of the Heart – If I Were You, The Saturdays – Up!, HtwoO ft. Platnum – What’s it Gonna Be, Sam Obernik – Baditude, Matt Willis – Hey Kid, V - Can You Feel It.
Kate is a board member of Dance UK and a graduate of Edinburgh University with an MA in General Arts.
Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor is a multi-award-winning British choreographer and director, internationally renowned for his physically testing choreography and groundbreaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet (appointed 2006).
McGregor has created new works for La Scala, Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Australian Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet among others. He has also directed movement for theatre and film, and in 2011 he choreographed the Grammy-nominated Lotus Flower video for Radiohead. This year, for the Royal Ballet, McGregor choreographed Carbon Life, and Machina for Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. He also directed a new Max Richter chamber opera, Sum, commissioned by ROH2, which premiered in May. In July, he created a large-scale public dance work, Big Dance Trafalgar Square, in celebration of the London 2012 Olympics. Upcoming commissions for 2013 include a new work for San Francisco Ballet and a new Rite of Spring for the Bolshoi Ballet.
McGregor's work has earned him three Critics' Circle Awards, two Time Out Awards, a South Bank Show Award and two Oliviers. In January 2011 McGregor was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for Services to Dance.
Wayne McGregor is a multi-award-winning British choreographer and director, internationally renowned for his physically testing choreography and groundbreaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet (appointed 2006).
McGregor has created new works for La Scala, Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Australian Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet among others. He has also directed movement for theatre and film, and in 2011 he choreographed the Grammy-nominated Lotus Flower video for Radiohead. This year, for the Royal Ballet, McGregor choreographed Carbon Life, and Machina for Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. He also directed a new Max Richter chamber opera, Sum, commissioned by ROH2, which premiered in May. In July, he created a large-scale public dance work, Big Dance Trafalgar Square, in celebration of the London 2012 Olympics. Upcoming commissions for 2013 include a new work for San Francisco Ballet and a new Rite of Spring for the Bolshoi Ballet.
McGregor's work has earned him three Critics' Circle Awards, two Time Out Awards, a South Bank Show Award and two Oliviers. In January 2011 McGregor was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for Services to Dance.
Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney is widely regarded as one of the most influential and versatile creative talents alive today. Firmly established as a world-class producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, orchestral composer, and cultural pioneer, Sawhney has become a latter-day Renaissance man in the worlds of music, film, videogames, dance and theatre.
Sawhney has released eight studio albums - each one garnering critical acclaim. London's Outcaste Records released the breakthrough Gold selling Beyond Skin in 1999, which took a prestigious Technics Mercury Music Prize nomination and won Sawhney the coveted South Bank Show Award. Subsequently, Sawhney signed a multiple album deal to Richard Branson's V2 Records, and released the millennial epic and Gold certified Prophesy in 2001, winning a MOBO Award as well as a BBC Radio 3 Music Award. Sawhney's seventh studio album, Philtre, was released in May 2005, winning another BBC Radio 3 Award and he has recently released his eighth album, London Undersound. He has toured each of his albums extensively and has sold-out many of the world's most prestigious venues both as a band and DJ.
To date, Sawhney has scored over forty films, as well as having scored TV ads for top international agencies. His music for Channel 4's Second Generation saw him nominated for the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Film and TV Composition (2004). Known for his incredible versatility Sawhney has established himself as one of the world's leading composers for film, and has acted as a judge for BAFTA, BIFA and The Ivor Novello Awards. Recent works include orchestral scores for Mira Nair's The Namesake, Sony Playstation 3's Heavenly Sword, and Franz Osten's silent film classic, A Throw of Dice, which he wrote for the London Symphony Orchestra and Henrique Goldman's Jean Charles, on the life of Jean-Charles de Menezes. Sawhney will be scoring Deepa Mehta's forthcoming adaptation of Salman Rushdie's book - Midnight's Children, The Fifth Beatle, on the life of Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, and the directorial debut of actor Andy Serkis, Dark Blue Rising. He is also currently scoring a major eight part TV series for the BBC, Human Planet, which will air in October 2010.
An acclaimed flamenco guitarist and classical/jazz pianist, Sawhney's musical ability to transcend cultural barriers has also gained him much recognition within the classical community. In 2006 Sawhney composed a 1 hour 20 minute symphony to accompany A Throw of Dice, which premiered with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, London and which led to a season with the LSO over 2009/10, including another score for Japanese silent movie Yogoto No Yume. He has subsequently toured globally with international orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra on Natural World Symphony, and the London Philharmonia on The Namesake. In 2000 Sawhney produced the Varekai album for Cirque du Soleil, taking his unique sound to an even wider audience. In 2002 he worked with Akram Khan and Anish Kapoor, scoring the music to Khan's critically acclaimed choreographed work Kaash, and also wrote the music for Khan's zero degrees (nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, and designed by Antony Gormley). Sawhney also scored Khan's recent work, bahok, for the Royal Ballet of China, Khan's new work, Vertical Road, and reprising their collaborative work, Confluence, in July 2010. Recent works in theatre include Simon McBurney's Olivier award-winning A Disappearing Number for Complicite, Sawhney's own production, Entanglement for the Royal Opera House, The Mahabharata adaptation by Olivier award-winning writer Stephen Clarke and Jonathan Holmes' Fallujah.
Much of Sawhney's attention remains focused on the areas of education and community building, accepting the role of Artist in Residence for five separate performing arts organisations around the world. In 2006 Sawhney was awarded an Honorary Graduate Degree from London's South Bank University and in late 2007 was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Kent along with a fellowship of Paul McCartney's LIPA. Sawhney also received three further university doctorates respectively from the universities of Sussex, Roehampton and Staffordshire in 2009.
www.nitinsawhney.com
Sawhney has released eight studio albums - each one garnering critical acclaim. London's Outcaste Records released the breakthrough Gold selling Beyond Skin in 1999, which took a prestigious Technics Mercury Music Prize nomination and won Sawhney the coveted South Bank Show Award. Subsequently, Sawhney signed a multiple album deal to Richard Branson's V2 Records, and released the millennial epic and Gold certified Prophesy in 2001, winning a MOBO Award as well as a BBC Radio 3 Music Award. Sawhney's seventh studio album, Philtre, was released in May 2005, winning another BBC Radio 3 Award and he has recently released his eighth album, London Undersound. He has toured each of his albums extensively and has sold-out many of the world's most prestigious venues both as a band and DJ.
To date, Sawhney has scored over forty films, as well as having scored TV ads for top international agencies. His music for Channel 4's Second Generation saw him nominated for the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Film and TV Composition (2004). Known for his incredible versatility Sawhney has established himself as one of the world's leading composers for film, and has acted as a judge for BAFTA, BIFA and The Ivor Novello Awards. Recent works include orchestral scores for Mira Nair's The Namesake, Sony Playstation 3's Heavenly Sword, and Franz Osten's silent film classic, A Throw of Dice, which he wrote for the London Symphony Orchestra and Henrique Goldman's Jean Charles, on the life of Jean-Charles de Menezes. Sawhney will be scoring Deepa Mehta's forthcoming adaptation of Salman Rushdie's book - Midnight's Children, The Fifth Beatle, on the life of Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, and the directorial debut of actor Andy Serkis, Dark Blue Rising. He is also currently scoring a major eight part TV series for the BBC, Human Planet, which will air in October 2010.
An acclaimed flamenco guitarist and classical/jazz pianist, Sawhney's musical ability to transcend cultural barriers has also gained him much recognition within the classical community. In 2006 Sawhney composed a 1 hour 20 minute symphony to accompany A Throw of Dice, which premiered with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, London and which led to a season with the LSO over 2009/10, including another score for Japanese silent movie Yogoto No Yume. He has subsequently toured globally with international orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra on Natural World Symphony, and the London Philharmonia on The Namesake. In 2000 Sawhney produced the Varekai album for Cirque du Soleil, taking his unique sound to an even wider audience. In 2002 he worked with Akram Khan and Anish Kapoor, scoring the music to Khan's critically acclaimed choreographed work Kaash, and also wrote the music for Khan's zero degrees (nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, and designed by Antony Gormley). Sawhney also scored Khan's recent work, bahok, for the Royal Ballet of China, Khan's new work, Vertical Road, and reprising their collaborative work, Confluence, in July 2010. Recent works in theatre include Simon McBurney's Olivier award-winning A Disappearing Number for Complicite, Sawhney's own production, Entanglement for the Royal Opera House, The Mahabharata adaptation by Olivier award-winning writer Stephen Clarke and Jonathan Holmes' Fallujah.
Much of Sawhney's attention remains focused on the areas of education and community building, accepting the role of Artist in Residence for five separate performing arts organisations around the world. In 2006 Sawhney was awarded an Honorary Graduate Degree from London's South Bank University and in late 2007 was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Kent along with a fellowship of Paul McCartney's LIPA. Sawhney also received three further university doctorates respectively from the universities of Sussex, Roehampton and Staffordshire in 2009.
www.nitinsawhney.com
Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter is becoming one of the UK's most exciting artists, recognised as both a choreographer and composer. Born in Jerusalem, Hofesh graduated from Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music before moving to Tel Aviv to join Batsheva Dance Company. He began drum and percussion studies whilst in Tel Aviv and continued later in Paris at the Agostiny College of Rhythm. In 2002, Hofesh arrived in the UK and joined Jasmin Vardimon Company.
His choreographic debut Fragments, for which he also created the score, won the third Sergei Diaghilev choreography competition. In 2004 Hofesh was commissioned by The Place Prize to create Cult, Hofesh was also Associate Artist at The Place from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, The Robin Howard Foundation commissioned Uprising, Hofesh's ever-popular work for seven men. In 2007 The Place, Southbank Centre and Sadler's Wells collaborated in commissioning In your rooms which was presented at all three London venues, culminating in sell-out shows and subsequently won the Critics' Circle Award 2008 for Best Choreography (modern) as well as being nominated for a South Bank Show Award.
Hofesh has created works for many UK and international companies including Scottish Dance Theatre, CandoCo, Dance United, StopGAP, Bare Bones, Ballet CeDeCe, Hellenic Dance Company, Bern Ballett, Skanes Dansteater, Carte Blanche and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet.
Hofesh worked as choreographer at The Royal Court Theatre for Motortown by Simon Stephens (2006), and on The Arsonists (2007). Hofesh was choreographer for the National Theatre's award winning production of Saint Joan (2007) directed by Marianne Elliot and starring Anne Marie Duff. Hofesh also choreographed the hit dance sequence 'Maxxie's Dance' for the opening of the second series of Channel 4's popular drama Skins.
In 2008 Hofesh formed Hofesh Shechter Company, which now tours globally to critical and popular acclaim.
www.hofesh.co.uk
Hofesh Shechter is becoming one of the UK's most exciting artists, recognised as both a choreographer and composer. Born in Jerusalem, Hofesh graduated from Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music before moving to Tel Aviv to join Batsheva Dance Company. He began drum and percussion studies whilst in Tel Aviv and continued later in Paris at the Agostiny College of Rhythm. In 2002, Hofesh arrived in the UK and joined Jasmin Vardimon Company.
His choreographic debut Fragments, for which he also created the score, won the third Sergei Diaghilev choreography competition. In 2004 Hofesh was commissioned by The Place Prize to create Cult, Hofesh was also Associate Artist at The Place from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, The Robin Howard Foundation commissioned Uprising, Hofesh's ever-popular work for seven men. In 2007 The Place, Southbank Centre and Sadler's Wells collaborated in commissioning In your rooms which was presented at all three London venues, culminating in sell-out shows and subsequently won the Critics' Circle Award 2008 for Best Choreography (modern) as well as being nominated for a South Bank Show Award.
Hofesh has created works for many UK and international companies including Scottish Dance Theatre, CandoCo, Dance United, StopGAP, Bare Bones, Ballet CeDeCe, Hellenic Dance Company, Bern Ballett, Skanes Dansteater, Carte Blanche and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet.
Hofesh worked as choreographer at The Royal Court Theatre for Motortown by Simon Stephens (2006), and on The Arsonists (2007). Hofesh was choreographer for the National Theatre's award winning production of Saint Joan (2007) directed by Marianne Elliot and starring Anne Marie Duff. Hofesh also choreographed the hit dance sequence 'Maxxie's Dance' for the opening of the second series of Channel 4's popular drama Skins.
In 2008 Hofesh formed Hofesh Shechter Company, which now tours globally to critical and popular acclaim.
www.hofesh.co.uk
Jasmin Vardimon
Jasmin Vardimon is a leading force in British dance theatre. Born and raised on a Kibbutz in central Israel, she joined the Kibbutz Dance Company and in 1995 won a British Council 'On the Way to London' Choreography Award. She moved to London in 1997 where she founded Jasmin Vardimon Company (previously Zbang). Jasmin is an Associate Artist at Sadler's Wells, since 2006. Previously, she was an Associate Artist at The Place in 1998 and a Yorkshire Dance Partner from 1999-2005.
Enjoying sell-out performances across the UK and internationally, her Company's works include: Freedom, 7734, Yesterday, Justitia, Park, Lullaby, Ticklish, LureLureLure, Tête, Madame Made and Therapist. Lullaby gained Jasmin selection for the BBC documentary Dance Film Academy featuring the development of a film version of the piece (2005). Jasmin has been commissioned to choreograph for the Royal Opera House (Tannhäuser, 2010) and for ROH2's OperaShots season with composer Graham Fitkin at the Linbury Studio (Home 2012). Other commissions include Hellenic Dance Athens, CandoCo, WID, Bare Bones, Transitions and curating the Dance Ballads Festival at the Oval House.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including: the prestigious Jerwood Choreography Award (2000); the Jerwood Foundation's 'Changing Stages' Award (2004); a nomination for Best Female Artist at the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards (2003); The London Arts Board 'New Choreographers' Award (1998); The Colette Littman Scholarship Award (1997); The Havatzeleth Foundation Scholarship (1997 & 1995); and the America-Israel Foundation Choreography Scholarship (1989 & 1991).
Jasmin is a Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, since September 2011. She developed a Higher Education programme for dancers and actors, led by her company as a Post-Graduate Diploma at Royal Holloway University London and in 2012 launches a full-time certificate course at her company's home base in Ashford.
www.jasminvardimon.com
Jasmin Vardimon is a leading force in British dance theatre. Born and raised on a Kibbutz in central Israel, she joined the Kibbutz Dance Company and in 1995 won a British Council 'On the Way to London' Choreography Award. She moved to London in 1997 where she founded Jasmin Vardimon Company (previously Zbang). Jasmin is an Associate Artist at Sadler's Wells, since 2006. Previously, she was an Associate Artist at The Place in 1998 and a Yorkshire Dance Partner from 1999-2005.
Enjoying sell-out performances across the UK and internationally, her Company's works include: Freedom, 7734, Yesterday, Justitia, Park, Lullaby, Ticklish, LureLureLure, Tête, Madame Made and Therapist. Lullaby gained Jasmin selection for the BBC documentary Dance Film Academy featuring the development of a film version of the piece (2005). Jasmin has been commissioned to choreograph for the Royal Opera House (Tannhäuser, 2010) and for ROH2's OperaShots season with composer Graham Fitkin at the Linbury Studio (Home 2012). Other commissions include Hellenic Dance Athens, CandoCo, WID, Bare Bones, Transitions and curating the Dance Ballads Festival at the Oval House.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including: the prestigious Jerwood Choreography Award (2000); the Jerwood Foundation's 'Changing Stages' Award (2004); a nomination for Best Female Artist at the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards (2003); The London Arts Board 'New Choreographers' Award (1998); The Colette Littman Scholarship Award (1997); The Havatzeleth Foundation Scholarship (1997 & 1995); and the America-Israel Foundation Choreography Scholarship (1989 & 1991).
Jasmin is a Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, since September 2011. She developed a Higher Education programme for dancers and actors, led by her company as a Post-Graduate Diploma at Royal Holloway University London and in 2012 launches a full-time certificate course at her company's home base in Ashford.
www.jasminvardimon.com
Christopher Wheeldon
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Wheeldon founded Morphoses in 2007 with the goal of introducing a new spirit of innovation to classical ballet by fostering collaboration among choreographers, dancers, visual artists, designers, composers.
Wheeldon joined The Royal Ballet in 1991 and in 1993 he was invited to become a member of New York City Ballet, where he was promoted to Soloist in 1998. Wheeldon choreographed his first work for NYCB, Slavonic Dances, for the 1997 Diamond Project. After creating Mercurial Manoeuvres for NYCB's Spring 2000 Diamond Project, Wheeldon retired from dancing to concentrate on choreography. In NYCB's 2000-2001 season, he served as the company's first Artist in Residence, creating two ballets: Polyphonia and Variations Sérieuses. In July 2001, Wheeldon was named NYCB's first Resident Choreographer.
Wheeldon was the recipient of the Dance Magazine Award and the London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Ballet for Polyphonia in 2005; a performance of the work by NYCB dancers received an Olivier Award. In 2006, DGV (Danse à Grande Vitesse) was nominated for an Olivier Award. Additional honours include the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center and the American Choreography Award.
www.morphoses.org
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Wheeldon founded Morphoses in 2007 with the goal of introducing a new spirit of innovation to classical ballet by fostering collaboration among choreographers, dancers, visual artists, designers, composers.
Wheeldon joined The Royal Ballet in 1991 and in 1993 he was invited to become a member of New York City Ballet, where he was promoted to Soloist in 1998. Wheeldon choreographed his first work for NYCB, Slavonic Dances, for the 1997 Diamond Project. After creating Mercurial Manoeuvres for NYCB's Spring 2000 Diamond Project, Wheeldon retired from dancing to concentrate on choreography. In NYCB's 2000-2001 season, he served as the company's first Artist in Residence, creating two ballets: Polyphonia and Variations Sérieuses. In July 2001, Wheeldon was named NYCB's first Resident Choreographer.
Wheeldon was the recipient of the Dance Magazine Award and the London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Ballet for Polyphonia in 2005; a performance of the work by NYCB dancers received an Olivier Award. In 2006, DGV (Danse à Grande Vitesse) was nominated for an Olivier Award. Additional honours include the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center and the American Choreography Award.
www.morphoses.org
Resident Companies
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance was founded in 1992 and became the instrument upon which McGregor evolved his drastically fast and articulate choreographic style. The company became a byword for its radical approach to new technology - incorporating animation, digital film, 3D architecture, electronic sound and virtual dancers into the live choreography. In Nemesis (2002), dancers dueled with prosthetic steel arm extensions to a soundtrack incorporating mobile phone conversations; in AtaXia (2004), McGregor's fellowship with the Experimental Psychology department of Cambridge University fuelled the choreography; in Amu (2005), live heart surgery fed in to the creative process; in Entity (2008), choreographic agents are imagined to a soundscape created by Coldplay collaborator Jon Hopkins and Joby Talbot (Chroma); and in Dyad 1909 (2009), the Interactive Cognition Lab of the University of California San Diego led a pioneering study into distributed cognition - how people think with their bodies - alongside the creation period. Dyad 1909 premiered at Sadler's Wells as part of In the Spirit of Diaghilev.
www.randomdance.org
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance was founded in 1992 and became the instrument upon which McGregor evolved his drastically fast and articulate choreographic style. The company became a byword for its radical approach to new technology - incorporating animation, digital film, 3D architecture, electronic sound and virtual dancers into the live choreography. In Nemesis (2002), dancers dueled with prosthetic steel arm extensions to a soundtrack incorporating mobile phone conversations; in AtaXia (2004), McGregor's fellowship with the Experimental Psychology department of Cambridge University fuelled the choreography; in Amu (2005), live heart surgery fed in to the creative process; in Entity (2008), choreographic agents are imagined to a soundscape created by Coldplay collaborator Jon Hopkins and Joby Talbot (Chroma); and in Dyad 1909 (2009), the Interactive Cognition Lab of the University of California San Diego led a pioneering study into distributed cognition - how people think with their bodies - alongside the creation period. Dyad 1909 premiered at Sadler's Wells as part of In the Spirit of Diaghilev.
www.randomdance.org
New Adventures
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures is the UK's premier contemporary dance/theatre touring company.
Its repertory includes some of the most successful dance productions of the last two decades. The company was launched in 2002 to create and perform both large and small-scale work by Matthew Bourne.
Since its launch it has built an enviable repertoire of exciting new work (Play Without Words , Edward Scissorhands and Dorian Gray) and new productions of favourite works from the repertory of Matthew Bourne's former company, Adventures In Motion Pictures (Swan Lake, Nutcracker!, Carman, Highland Fling and Cinderella) . New Adventures is committed to reviving these popular works on a regular basis, along with the creation of new work.
As well as being a Resident Company at Sadler's Wells, New Adventures is also a touring company. Both at home and internationally, it annually gives more performances than any other UK dance company and tours extensively from Plymouth to Aberdeen in the UK, as well as Japan, Korea, USA, Australia, Europe and Russia.
www.new-adventures.net
Its repertory includes some of the most successful dance productions of the last two decades. The company was launched in 2002 to create and perform both large and small-scale work by Matthew Bourne.
Since its launch it has built an enviable repertoire of exciting new work (Play Without Words , Edward Scissorhands and Dorian Gray) and new productions of favourite works from the repertory of Matthew Bourne's former company, Adventures In Motion Pictures (Swan Lake, Nutcracker!, Carman, Highland Fling and Cinderella) . New Adventures is committed to reviving these popular works on a regular basis, along with the creation of new work.
As well as being a Resident Company at Sadler's Wells, New Adventures is also a touring company. Both at home and internationally, it annually gives more performances than any other UK dance company and tours extensively from Plymouth to Aberdeen in the UK, as well as Japan, Korea, USA, Australia, Europe and Russia.
www.new-adventures.net
ZooNation UK Dance Company
ZooNation is one of the UK's leading hip hop dance companies. Founded in 2002 by director and choreographer Kate Prince, the company is committed to both creating and performing innovative works of hip hop dance theatre and supporting young people through its hip hop academy, ZooSkool, currently working with over 150 young people aged 4-18 years.
ZooNation's work has included creating the award-winning five star West End show Into the Hoods, and performing at the Official Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and at Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Celebrations in Hyde Park. The company have previously created and performed pieces for some of the most high-profile sporting events in recent years including the Opening Ceremony of the Tour de France, the Official Olympic Celebration and the Olympic Launch, all in Trafalgar Square.
Corporate work has included launching the new Mazda 2 to international Press at the Geneva Motor Show, working with Sony Playstation to create choreography for SingStar, opening the Comfort Prima High Street Fashion Awards at Battersea Evolution, performing at the ICC in Barcelona for Hewlett-Packard and at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. Television performances have included Sport Relief (BBC), The Paul O'Grady Show (Channel 4), This Morning (ITV), Graham Norton's When Will I Be Famous (BBC), Blue Peter (BBC), The Late Edition (BBC), Popworld (Channel 4) and Whatever (Sky One). They also created the Levi's idents for Trouble TV's Bump 'n Grind. .
www.zoonation.co.uk
ZooNation's work has included creating the award-winning five star West End show Into the Hoods, and performing at the Official Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and at Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Celebrations in Hyde Park. The company have previously created and performed pieces for some of the most high-profile sporting events in recent years including the Opening Ceremony of the Tour de France, the Official Olympic Celebration and the Olympic Launch, all in Trafalgar Square.
Corporate work has included launching the new Mazda 2 to international Press at the Geneva Motor Show, working with Sony Playstation to create choreography for SingStar, opening the Comfort Prima High Street Fashion Awards at Battersea Evolution, performing at the ICC in Barcelona for Hewlett-Packard and at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. Television performances have included Sport Relief (BBC), The Paul O'Grady Show (Channel 4), This Morning (ITV), Graham Norton's When Will I Be Famous (BBC), Blue Peter (BBC), The Late Edition (BBC), Popworld (Channel 4) and Whatever (Sky One). They also created the Levi's idents for Trouble TV's Bump 'n Grind. .
www.zoonation.co.uk
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