DANIEL HAY-GORDON

Daniel Hay-Gordon is an award winning choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker whose career has spanned over fifteen years, working both extensively in the United Kingdom and internationally. 

Daniel’s expertise as a choreographer and movement director extends across dance, opera, theatre, film and music videos including the The Royal Ballet, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Staats Opera Berlin, The Hollywood Bowl, Landestheater Passau, Nevill Holt Opera, Aldeburgh Music Festival, The Print Rooms, Tanzkompagnie Theater St. Gallen, Blind Summit, Akademi, Anjali Dance Company, and the BBC.

In 2012, Daniel co-founded Thick & Tight Company with El Perry. This acclaimed company merges dance with mime, drag, lip-syncing, and satire, gracing stages at prominent venues such as Sadler’s Wells, the London International Mime Festival, The Place, Royal Festival Hall, Wilton’s Music Hall, Barbican, The Tate, and Battersea Arts Centre to name a few. Thick & Tight has also created works on international companies and performed at international arts festivals that include Zfin Malta (National Dance Company of Malta), Materia Prima (Poland), Stockholm Fringe (Sweden), Klovnbuf International Festival (Slovenia), Sydney Fringe (Australia), and Lucky Trimmer (Germany). In 2022, their exploration of Noh and Kyogen theatre in Japan culminated in a performance at Tokyo's Tessen Kai Theatre in 2023, featuring Noh actors and musicians. They currently hold the positions of Associate Artists at The Lowry and Artists in Residence at the Philharmonia Orchestra. Recently, they received the award for Achievement in Dance at the UK Theatre Awards and were nominated for Best Independent Dance Company by the Critics Circle Award.

A graduate of Rambert in 2009, Daniel’s performance repertoire includes collaborations with notable choreographers and companies such as Aletta Collins, Lea Anderson, Kim Brandstrup, Deborah Warner, Gary Clarke, Rambert, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, English National Ballet, NDCWales, Live Arts New York, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Among his notable performances are his role opposite Fiona Shaw in Phyllida Lloyd’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and his solo rendition of Aletta Collins’ ‘Awakenings’ at Oliver Sacks’ 80th Birthday Celebrations in New York.

Review of Daniel's dancing in The Observer: “I can think of no other male performer for whom movement is a more naturally expressive state. There is no other-dimensionality to Hay-Gordon, no barrier of self-consciousness or artifice. All is weight and heft and flow.”

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