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Students from the DanceEast Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) perform a mixed bill of original works commissioned by leading national and international choreographers – Jose Agudo, EKLEIDO, Uchenna Dance, Tom Dale Company and Faye Tan.
The DanceEast CAT offers high-quality training to young people aged 10-18 years with exceptional talent and potential in dance from the East of England. The CAT is part of a national programme supported by the Department for Education’s Music and Dance Scheme.
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About the Choreographers
Jose Agudo
Jose Agudo is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator based in London, working internationally across dance, physical theatre, and contemporary performance. His work is deeply rooted in formal flamenco training and reimagined through a contemporary lens, placing tradition into dialogue with the present. Jose started his career in Andalusia where he began performing as a Flamenco dancer. Slowly the world of contemporary dance became more visible as he worked throughout Europe performing with Metros, Charleroi/Danses, Ballet de Marseille, T.R.A.S.H, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and Akram Khan Company. As assistant choreographer and rehearsal director. Jose has worked on several creations for Akram Khan Company from 2010 to 2017. Including the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony.
Jose will work with the graduating students on his repertoire CARMEN will always be free – a powerful and joyful celebration of movement, rhythm, and collective energy. The work draws from flamenco footwork, musicality, and emotional intensity, while opening space for freedom, individuality, and play.
Learn more about Jose AgudoEKLEIDO
Ekleido is a choreographic duo formed by Hannah Ekholm and Faye Stoeser, recognised for creating dynamic work across live performance and film. Their artistic practice embraces multidisciplinary collaboration, working closely with leading figures in the electronic music scene. Their work has toured extensively to major venues and festivals including Glastonbury Festival, Sadler’s Wells Breakin’ Convention, Latitude Festival and more. Their commercial choreographic credits span Marc Jacobs, Maison Margiela, NIKE, Joy Crookes, RAYE, Floating Points, British Vogue, Daniel Avery, Grey Goose, and La Roux.
“Our movement language includes intricate and articulate use of arms, contact work working with precision and expansion of the body, fast paced and dynamic phrase work, floorwork, and attention to musicality. We combine contemporary dance with club dance and street dance styles including New Way Vogue, and Threading, alongside drawing from the individual movement vocabularies from the dancers.” – EKLEIDO
Learn more about EKLEIDOUchenna Dance
Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu is the Founder, Creative Director, and Joint CEO of award-winning company Uchenna, a national touring dance company founded in 2009. Vicki is the creative force behind acclaimed Uchenna productions including Our Mighty Groove, which won Best Dance Production at the Black British Theatre awards. Vicki’s work invites you to trust your instincts, connect to what matters, and realise that your superpower is being you.
The Uchenna dance style fuses waacking, vogue and house with traditional African and contemporary, creating a signatory aesthetic that simply is, UCHENNA.
Learn more about Uchenna DanceTom Dale Company
Tom Dale Company exists to push boundaries, merging dance and digital arts to create bold, immersive performance experiences. Founded in 2010 by choreographer and Artistic Director Tom Dale, the company is known for its experimental approach, blending contemporary movement with cutting-edge technology to challenge perceptions of space, body, and reality. Renowned for bringing together innovative teams of creatives, Tom explores the intersection of contemporary dance and digital art, producing groundbreaking performance works across diverse settings.
This commission will be restaging SURGE.
The company’s critically acclaimed productions include SURGE, Rise, I Infinite, Refugees of the Septic Heart, Step Sonic, and Digitopia, which won the award for Outstanding Production at the UK Theatre and Technology Awards. More recently, SURGE received 4 and 5-star national reviews and won a National Dance Award for
Jemima Brown’s Outstanding Performance.
Faye Tan
“A little bit about me: I am Singaporean and I now live in Wales. I have a decade of experience working as a full-time dancer with repertoire dance companies National Dance Company Wales and Frontier Danceland (a
company in Singapore). I have worked with over thirty choreographers from all over the world as a performer and collaborator in new creations and restaged works.
My movement and choreographic practice is nourished by my extensive experiences of working with international choreographers and my explorations of different dance styles, cultures, methods and techniques such as ballet, house, hip hop, popping, locking, acrobatics. My works often embrace the overwhelm and complexities of human emotion, and are often odes to human experiences of the sublime.” – Faye Tan
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