He started by working with a permanent ensemble of full-time dancers, and as from 2010 the company is subsidiary recipient under the Danish government’s Finance Act.
The company's former artistic director and chief choreographer Tim Rushton (MBE) was born in England and trained at the Royal Ballet Upper School, Covent Garden, London.
Tim Rushton is now choreographer and artistic director of Kompagni B, the Royal Danish Ballet's Youth Company.
The Swedish choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Pontus Lidberg was Danish Dance Theatre’s artistic director from 2018 to 2022.
He is educated at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and has a master's degree in Contemporary Performing Arts from the University of Gothenburg.
For Danish Dance Company he has created the following works: Sirene, Kentaur (winner of the Lumen Prize Nordic Award), Roaring Twenties, Ikaros, and Paysage Soudain La Nuit (restoration with dancers from A Costa Danza, Cuba and Dansk Danseteater) for Copenhagen Summer Dance.
Marina Mascarell has created works for e.g. Nederlands Dans Theater 1 and 2, GöteborgOperans Dansekompani, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon with Lyon Opera Ballet, Skånes Dansteater, Dance Forum Tapei and The Australian Ballet, Sydney.