SELF ASSEMBLY
Performed by Tam Ward and Carly Best

PLACE PRIZE FINALIST Wed 20 - Sat 30 September

Jonathan Lunn is a choreographer and director working in dance, opera, theatre and film. He trained at London Contemporary Dance School and spent ten years with London Contemporary Dance Theatre as dancer, choreographer and Associate Director. He was the 1993 recipient of the HKK Memorial Award, and thereby Research Choreographer in Residence at Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Arizona. He is a graduate of Hull University and London Contemporary Dance School. He is the recipient of a NESTA Fellowship, and a Trustee for Contemporary Dance Trust’s Educational Endowment Fund and the Lunn Prothero Dance Award.

Recent directing includes Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Dardanus in Passau, Germany. Choreography for opera includes major productions at La Scala Milan, Amsterdam Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, English National Opera, Opera North, Vilnius Festival Lithuania, and Opera Bastille Paris. Theatre productions include The Gondoliers at Chichester Festival Theatre where he was 2003 Season’s Associate Choreographer; and the National Theatre production of Pericles, which earned him an Olivier Nomination for Best Choreographer in Theatre.

His own dance productions include Modern Living, winner of a 1993 Time Out Dance Award; Storyboard (UK/USA tour); and Removed From The Palace – a collaboration with Cambodian dancers and musicians - for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, USA.

He has created work for European and American dance companies including Ballett Theater Munchen (Bach Bench); Ballet Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Berg Jones & Sarvis, Portland Maine; Dansarutbildningen, Stockholm; EDge; 4D Performance Group, and National Youth Dance Company. His works for London Contemporary Dance Theatre include Olivier Award Nominated Shift, and Hang Up, a collaboration with Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella. They also worked together on Mosaic, a film for Dancelines/BBC. His other work on film includes Love Actually, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Macbeth Taped.