Biography
February 23rd, 2011
Martin Lindinger
Martin Lindinger was born in Munich, Germany. He trained at the Royal Ballet School in London, England and in 1998, joined the City Ballet of London as a soloist. In January 2000 Martin joined Rambert Dance Company where he had exposure to some of the worlds finest choreographers including: Christopher Bruce CBE, Jiri Kylian, Glen Tetley, Merce Cunningham, Mats Ek, Twyla Tharp and Hans Van Manen amongst others. The highlight of which was being chosen to perform the lead in Glen Tetley’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire’, which lead to critical acclaim. During his time at Rambert, Martin was awarded with the Dancing Times Dancer of the Month and in January 2003 he was the recipient of the London Critics’ Circle Dance Award for Outstanding Male Artist (modern) U.K. In November 2004 he joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (USA) under the directorship of Jim Vincent where he performed work by Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe, Lar Lubovitch and Nacho Duato. In October 2007 Martin joined the National Ballet of Canada. Since June 2009 he has been freelance and was a guest principal artist with Ballet BC in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto.
May 1st, 2009
Lina Limosani
Upon graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999, Lina became a member of Garry Stewart’s AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATRE (ADT) from 2000-2005, where she performed in Birdbrain, The Age of Unbeauty, Nothing, Plastic Space, Attention Deficit Therapy and Held. Lina toured extensively nationally and internationally with the company. In 2004 she was nominated for a GREEN ROOM award for her performance in The Age of Unbeauty at the Melbourne Festival. In 2003, she was awarded the EMERGING ARTIST award by the Adelaide Critics Circle for her works in ADT’s in-house choreographic seasons of “IGNITION”, and has gone on to create her own works independently. Since leaving the company, she has performed in works such as Narelle Benjamin’s ‘Out of water”, Lucy Guerin’s “Structure and Sadness”, Troy Mundy’s “Green Demon”, Gideon Obarzanek’s “Glow” and Shona McCullagh’s (NZ) “Mondo Nuovo – A glimse of a new world”. Lina recently received funding to develop her dance film title “This time”.
May 1st, 2008
Stuart Bowden
Stuart Bowden graduated from the Northern School of Contmporary Dance with a first class honors degree in 2000.
He has since been privileged to work with David Hughes Dance Company, Earthfall Physical Theatre, Diversions The Dance Company of Wales, Gilmore Productions and more. Stuart was recently chosen to be part of the exclusive, National Theatre professional development programme where he has been refining his skills and knowledge in Arts Management. Stuart’s mentor is Deborah Bull,
Stuart is a Gemini, who likes tea and his toast done on one side. Stuart finds inner peace not only on stage but in gardening.
Favourite quote, “Live life before it lives you”.
January 1st, 2008
Matt Foster
Associate Director
Matt Foster is a self-taught breaker by trade. He co-founded Random Aspekts b-boy crew in 2001 and continues to compete and perform, both nationally and internationally, with the group. He first experimented with contemporary dance under the direction of Frank McConnell when he joined Freshmess in 2003 – he remained a core-member of this company for four years. He established his own company Cypher with good friend Tony Mills in 2004 and together they continue to explore the connections between b-boy movement and contemporary vocabulary. In 2007 Matt was invited to join David Hughes Dance as a performer and, in addition to performing with the company is also the Associate Director of the organisation. He also operates as a freelance artist having choreographed for the Traverse Theatre, Aida Karic and Birds of Paradise Theatre and has collaborated as an independent artist with individuals including Sarah Slijfer, Christine Devaney and Michael Popper.
January 1st, 2008
David McInnes-Hughes
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
David M. Hughes trained at the London Contemporary Dance School from 1983-86. In David’s’ 23 Year career, and to name but a few, he has worked with DV8 Physical Theatre, Phoenix Dance Company, Siobhan Davies Dance, Rambert Dance Company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, London Contemporary Dance Theatre and Janet Smith and Dancers.
Since 1996, David has toured and performed solo commissions from Christopher Bruce, Robert Cohan, Siobhan Davies, Wayne McGregor, Javier De Frutos, Cesc Gelabert and Pit Fong Loh.
In 2005, David Hughes Dance was formed and, has since commissioned works from Rafael Bonachela, Tanja Liedtke, Al Seed and Hughes himself.
‘I would like to take this time and opportunity to give thanks to my own mentors/superheroes; Marion McInnes-Hughes (my mother), Janet Smith, Nadine Senior, Bob Cohan, Moshe Romano (my coach), Patrick Harding-Irmer and Anca Frankenhauser (my inspiration), Christopher Bruce, Siobhan Davies, Lloyd Newson and Cesc Gelabert (a man who is incredible, wholesome, generous and spiritual with a heart and knowledge larger than life itself). If anybody feels that they have been unjustifiably excluded give me a call!’ – David M. Hughes, July 2009
Siobhan Davies Dance has created, along with Coventry University, a new online archive of Siobhan Davies’ works. It contains full length films of the work/rehearsals, together with images, text, and commentaries on 36 key dance works. www.siobhandaviesarchive.com
