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Ben Wright - Choreographer
Ben is an independent choreographer and performer working in contemporary dance, Opera and Theatre. In 2008 he launched his own company bgroup (www.bgroup.org.uk) creating The Diminishing Present, This moment is your life (A Bloomberg Place Prize commission) and most recently about around for the ensemble.
Other Recent choreographic work includes The Ghost Spot and A summoning for Skanes Dance Theatre Sweden; Knight Crew Glyndbourne Opera which is the subject of a new BBC2 documentary ‘Gareth goes to Glyndbourne’; Cunning Little Vixen and Rigoletto Grange Park Opera; a rustle of kindling MAP dance Company; Twelfth Night Donmar West End; Tobias and the Angel and The red and brown water The Young Vic; ID for Arts Alliance; The Aventures of Mr Brouchek.A Midsummer Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliette Opera North; Donna del Largo Garsington Opera; La Vie Parisienne, La Fanciulla del West, Macbeth, Dead Man Walking and Faust Malmo Opera; Don Giovanni Scottish Opera; As You Like It Wyndhams Theatre; Odyssey collaborating with Rachel Krische and Interim with US artist Allyson Green for Danspace NYC.
Ben recently directed An audience with Adrienne; A night at the Opera for the 2009 Bayerische Staatsoper Festival and was co-director and film maker for An evening with Adrienne at Drill Hall and 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival;
As a performer Ben toured the US in Sinner for Stan Wont Dance and has worked for Adventures in Motion Pictures, Ricochet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Richard Alston and Amanda Miller’s Company: Pretty Ugly. In 1995 he created the role of the Prince in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake performing throughout the UK, London’s West End, Los Angeles, Broadway, Japan and Korea. Ben also created the part of the Golden Monkey in the original production of ‘His Dark Material’s’ at The National Theatre.
Future work includes a new work for bgroup: Cadences and new dance commissions for Skanes Dance Theatre Sweden, Ludus Dance company and Verve. Also Don Giovanni for The Metropolitan Opera; Betrothal in a Monastery for Toulouse Opera and The Marriage of Figaro for Glyndbourne Opera.
Ben Wright - full CV (pdf)
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