THOUGHT LATCHING TO THOUGHT AND PULLING
Peformed by Keir Patrick, Matthew Winston, Rob Clarke and Ben Dixon

Preview: Thu 7 September    Semi-Final: Thu 14 September 

Ben Wright’s recent directorial and choreographic work includes choreography for Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera, co-director and film maker for An evening with Adrienne at Drill Hall, movement for As You Like It at the Wyndhams Theatre in the West End, Odyssey, a  collaboration with Rachel Krische for Krische/Wright Company and choreography for Stuart Laing’s production of Gounod’s Faust for Malmo Opera Sweden. He was also the choreographer and assistant director for Tobias and the Angel for the Young Vic and English Touring Opera in 2004 and will be remounting the production for the opening of the new Young Vic Theatre in September 2006. In 2004 Ben won a NESTA  Fellowship to explore relationships between choreography, directing and film. In 2002 he won a Jerwood Choreographic award alongside fellow UK artist Rachel Krische and also The Bonnie Bird Choreographic Prize.

As a performer Ben has just returned from a US Tour of the two-man play Sinner by Stan Won’t Dance. Over the last fourteen years he has worked as a dance artist for Adventures in Motion Pictures [AMP], Ricochet Dance Company, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, The Richard Alston Dance Company and Amanda Miller’s Company Pretty Ugly. He has worked with the likes of Mark Morris, Stephen Petronio, Christopher Bruce, Angelin Prejlocaj, Russell Maliphant Aletta Collins and Improbable Theatre’s Phelim McDermott. In 1995 he co-created the Role of the Prince in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and performed the role in seasons throughout the UK, London’s West End, Los Angeles, Broadway, Japan and Korea. Ben was also seen in AMP’s production of Cinderella in the West End and LA. As an actor, Ben joined Nicholas Hytner’s premiere season of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre in 2004, where amongst other roles he created the part of the Golden Monkey. Ben trained at Ballet Rambert School from 1987-1990.