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In NEW GROUND, watch three distinct new works made for and with NSCD’s undergraduate students by international guest choreographers:
Each brings a different perspective. See the results of their collaborations alongside original student work.
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Christopher Evans is a movement director, choreographer and theatre maker whose work has grown out of a long career in dance. He was a founding company member of Hofesh Shechter Company and is now an Associate Director of Gecko Theatre. His work remains deeply rooted in the detailed physicality of dance, while he is consistently drawn towards narrative structures — using movement to uncover story, shape meaning and explore the mechanics of how human behaviour can be communicated theatrically. The emotional and theatrical language of Gecko has been a major influence on his practice, but movement remains at the heart of how he makes work. His credits include UK Associate Movement Director on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End, Associate Choreographer on Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, work with Bartlett Sher at the Metropolitan Opera, Associate Director and Movement Director for The Deal in Shenzhen, and Movement Director on Die Hunnenkönigin for the Nibelungen Festival in Worms
Amaury Lebrun was born in France and trained at the School of American Ballet in New York, where he was chosen by Jerome Robbins for a new creation.
He has worked for various European companies as a soloist including the Ballet du Rhin, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and the Ballet de l’Opéra de Nice, performing works by choreographers including Maurice Béjart, George Balanchine, Nils Christe, Carolyn Carlson, Roland Petit, Hans Van Manen, John Cranko, Jose Limon, Maryse Delente and Myriam Naisy among others.
In 2000, he joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza as a principal, dancing many works by director Nacho Duato as well as works from renowned prestigious choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe, Jacopo Godani, Mats Ek and Wim Vandekeybus.
From 2006 to 2016, alongside his dance and choreographic career, he taught at the Conservatoire of Higher Education in Madrid, Spain. He is often called to teach workshops and masterclasses worldwide and is a member of Nacho Duato’s foundation to stage his work around the world.
As a choreographer, Amaury has created many award-winning original works for companies including Ballet de l’Opéra de Nice, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Centro Coreografico Gallego, Ballet de la Generalitat, Phoenix Dance Theatre and Northern Ballet. His piece Left Unseen (2018), created first for Northern School of Contemporary Dance and then with Phoenix Dance Theatre in its extended version, has been widely acclaimed by critics.
Imogen Reeve is a choreographer and artistic director working across contemporary dance theatre, technology and feminist performance. Her work explores what happens when bodies, machines and emerging technologies collide, creating performances that are highly physical, provocative and often surreal. Leading a research-led dance company with an international outlook, Imogen develops new choreographic languages that bring together movement, technology, feminist thinking and visual world-building. She is interested in the ways technology shapes how we understand our bodies, our identities and each other, and in how the body can become a place of resistance, intelligence and transformation. Her work questions the stories we inherit about gender, femininity and the body, while exploring the biases built into the technologies we increasingly live alongside. Through performance, research and studio experimentation, she creates bold dance theatre that invites audiences to see bodies, technology and the future differently.
