RHYS DENNIS

Height: 5'10"
Chest:
Waist: 30"
Ins Leg:
Collar: 15"
Shoes (UK): 9 uk
Hair: black
Eyes: brown


COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCE WORK
2024: Rema Ozeba Music video
2024: Playboi Carti Wireless festival Performance
2023: Usher x Remy Martin Advert
2022: Playboi Carti Wireless festival Performance
2022: Nanushka Sun Series Spring/ Summer Fashion show
2021: Beyonce Black Is King/ Brown Skin Girl Film/ Music video
2021: FKA Twigs Don’t Judge me Music video
2020: Brave New World Pilot episode HBO Series
2019: Birkenstock x Universal works Advert
2019: Hermes Spring/Summer campaign Fashion show 

THEATRE CHOREOGRAPHY/ MOVEMENT DIRECTION
2024: Lady of the sea
Dir. Dawn Butler (OBE), LAMDA
2023: Look Back in Anger Dir. Atri Banerjee, Almeida Theatre (Associate)
2023: King Lear Dir. Yaël Farber, Almeida Theatre (Associate)
2023: REP Dir. Gbolahan Obisesan, The Sainsbury Theatre (Associate)
2023: After Life Dir. Shanice Sewell, Central School of Speech & Drama, Courtyard Theatre
2023: Playfight Orison productions Dir. Leian Baptiste, Pleasance Theatre & Seven Dials Playhouse
2023: Eve & Cain Gateway Arts Dir. Sonny Nwachukwu, Queens Theatre
2023: Out of Many Part II BA3’s The Place Theatre
2022: Black Is… FUBUNATION Sadler’s Wells Theatre & Victoria & Albert Museum
2022: Into Orbit Dance East Kickstarter Cohort Latitude festival
2022: Out of Many BA3’s Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance
2021: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra x FUBUNATION Wembley Stadium
2021: …in silent company Conny Janssen Dance Company Netherlands tour
2021: Light night Leeds x Northern School of Contemporary Dance Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre
2020: Brent 2020 Opening Ceremony Associate with South Paw Dance Company, Wembley stadium
2020 & 2019: Victoria & Albert Museum, Friday Lates – FUBUNATION Exhibition & performance

COMMERCIAL CHOREOGRAPHY
2023: EartH Hackney
Mike Sebastian and friends
2023: Outernet Global Vince Fraser exhibition
2021: WeTransfer, WePresent Julian Knxx – Black Corporeal Film
2021: 180 FACT: Julian Knxx – cool burn Music video
2021: Clean Bandit – 24 Hours 2021 Music video
2015: Clean Bandit – Stronger Music video
2012: Clean Bandit – A&E Music video

 

ACADEMIC BOOKINGS
2024: Guest teacher (BA1)
Northern School of Contemporary Dance
2024: Choreographer Centre for Advance Training, Swindon Dance
2023: Choreographer & Guest lecturer (BA3) London Contemporary Dance School
2020 -2023: Choreographer, Teacher Centre for Advance Training, The Place
2023: Guest lecturer (BA2 & BA3) Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
2022: Choreographer (BA3) Trinity Laban conservatoire of Music & Dance
2021: Guest lecturer (BA1/ BA2) London Contemporary Dance School
2019-2023 Guest lecturer, Artist-in-residence & Choreographer (BA3) IRIE! Dance Theatre
2017: Guest teacher (BA3) Unicamp: Campinas state University São Paulo, Brazil 

GUEST TEACHER WORKSHOPS
2024: Rambert
Pro Class
2023: Trip Space London
2023: Festival Internacional de Dança de Araraquara Sao Paulo, Brazil
2023: Le Château, Generation A-Lab Saint Louis Senegal, Africa
2023: Casa SoMovimento, Salvador, Brazil
2023: Dance Base, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022: FABRIC Nottingham, England
2022: Southbank centre, London
2022: Advantages of Age, London
2021: 4fürTANZ Platform Leipzig, Germany 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2024: Babel Theatre Residency
Movement, Creation & Performance facilitator at Chisenhale Dance Space
2023 & 2024: Artist-in-Residency/ Teacher Casa SoMovimento, Salvador, Brazil
2023: Careers talk Master Class Resolution festival The Place
2023: Génération A – Le Lab Choreographers exchange by Théâtre Paris Villette, Senegal, Africa
2023: Board member IRIE! Dance Theatre for touring company Connecting Vibes
2022: Careers talk panelist University of East London
2021: BBC SOUNDS ‘safe space’ podcast FUBUNATION
2021: Aerowaves Top Twenty artists FUBUNATION
2021-2022: Develop your creative practice 10k Grant by Arts Council England
2021: Arts & Culture panelist Kiln Theatre, Mayor of London, Greater London Authority
2021: Festival Director, Producer, Teacher Dance With The Nation Dance Festival, London

 

THEATRE PERFORMANCE WORK
2023: Echo – Festival Internacional de Dança de Araraquara (Sesc)
Solo performance
2021- 2023: FUBUNATION – Ruins UK, Europe & West Africa tour
2022: Seke Chimutengwende – It begins in darkness UK tour
2021: Leila McMillan – Curl of hair Birmingham International Dance Festival
2020: Jeanefer Jean Charles – Black Victorians UK tour
2019: James Cousins Company – Epilogues UK tour
2018-2019: Heather Walrond Company – The Rising UK & Europe tour
2018: Restoke – Man Up Stoke-on-Trent performance

Education
2014-17:
London Contemporary Dance School
2013-14: Northern School of Contemporary Dance
2012-13: Lewisham College