Tom Hobden

CREATIVE TUTOR

Tom Hobden is a choreographer, educator, dance education consultant, mentor and co-artistic director of UNIT and has successfully been working in dance industry since 2002. He is regarded as a national leader in community dance practice and most known for his exceptional intergenerational performances and is ability to work with anyone.

Tom is the co-artistic director of UNIT which he co-founded in 2014 with film director Kate Flurrie. The company produces touring productions and projects involving participatory casts, stand alone films presented in film festivals across Europe and creative learning projects and consultancy for young dancers, graduates, and dance organisations.

He was the Associate Artist at Dance East (2015 – 2017), Clore Short course recipient 2017, Part of Dance UK’s mentoring programme (Paul Russ, Jonathan Burrows) and consultant for the Ballet Boyz, Alexander Whitley and Start East. He currently lectures for Trinity Laban, and ISTD as well as the University of Suffolk and is the lead mentor and curator of Overture for New Adventures (a programme to support early career Dance Artists), Lead Artist for Chance to Dance (ROH), Lead Creative Tutor for the DanceEast Centre for  Advanced Training and has recently been selected to be part of Quest Lab With Studio Wayne McGregor.