SIZE OF COMPANY
8 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
David Hughes

Associate Artist
Matt Foster

Management Consultant
Catalyst Dance Management in Scotland

ARTISTIC POLICY
David Hughes Dance commissions, produces and tours original cross-disciplinary works from leading choreographers and theatre makers. The company is committed to innovation and excellence, with emphasis on the creative and collaborative process. It maintains a nucleus of committed, multi-disciplined, passionate, questioning, honest performers and encourages thinking, sharing and demonstration which will inform, enhance, advance, and educate the dancers’ own practices.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘With this programme and his excellent dancers, Hughes has aimed high and pretty much hit the target.’ Ballet Dance Magazine

‘It’s not often you get this close to big-stage brilliance.’ The List

‘Hughes’s approach is to slip neatly under the skin of a dance and make it his own.’ The Guardian

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Imploded: Une Rêverie Romantique A contemporary study by Tanja Liedtke of Les Sylphides, the first abstract classical ballet without narrative structure or defined characters. Dynamic, extreme, athletic, danced on a magical mirrored floor. (16 mins, 5 on stage, 7 on the road.)

[4:Freeze-Frame] By Rafael Bonachela. A hybrid of classical and contemporary technique, this work is abstract and relentless whilst tender and precise. (22 mins, 5 on stage, 7 on the road.)

L’apres Midi d’un Faune Solo work for David Hughes by Siobhan Davies. A modern take on Nijinsky’s Les après midi du une faun (dancer). A study of stillness, the solo is technically controlled and soft. (10 mins, 1 on stage, 3 on the road.)

Matt’s Lost His Groove Duet by David Hughes – a game between two men, one Harley Davidson and a scooter! It is a playful, cheeky and tender work incorporating breakdance and contemporary disciplines. (10 mins, 2 on stage, 3 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
New Work (untitled) By Scottish theatre maker, Al Seed, being created early 2008, using abstraction, animal movement-vocabularies and playfulness to expose some of the mechanics of our everyday physical lives and to explore the discourses on hierarchy, power, gender, and belief-systems that they raise.

WRAP-AROUND
David Hughes Dance is fully committed to the training of new dancers and offers apprenticeships that will nurture and develop young talent. The company runs comprehensive outreach and education programmes and residencies closely connected to the repertoire.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Germany ([4:Freeze-Frame], L’apres Midi d’un Faune)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request