Kim Brandstrup

Over the last two and a half decades, Brandstrup has established his name as one of the leading narrative choreographers of his generation, a dance maker with a natural instinct for telling stories.

When he decided to switch his studies to dance, at the late age of 19, what motivated him was the belief that this new art form offered him a language with an even greater immediacy and universality than film.

Works for Arc includes Les Noces (1983), The Dybbuk (1988), Peer Gynt (1990), Othello (1993), Saints and Shadows (1994), Crime Fictions(1996), Elegy (2001), Hamlet (2003) and Anatomy of the Storyteller (2006).

The shape of the body is not expressive - it is how you move , it’s how you get there, how you mould the journey , that matters.” Brandstrup's association with The Royal Ballet began in 2005 when he was invited to contribute a work for the Ashton centenary season.

For his literary source Brandstrup has again turned to Dostoyevsky, using the author's preliminary character studies for the 1868 novel, The Idiot in order to weave together a series of obliquely stated relationships and dramatic themes.

Goldberg: The Brandstrup-Rojo Project, which he created in September 2009 with Royal Ballet Principal Tamara Rojo, and which won a Laurence Olivier Award for the 'Best Dance Production of 2009'.

Invitus Invitam (2010) for Leanne Benjamin and Ed Watson was based on Racine's play, Berenice; music by Couperin orchestrated by Thomas Ades.

He also created the dance film Leda and the Swan – starring Zenaida Yanowsky, Swedish dancer Tommy Franzen and actor Fiona Shaw – for Deloitte Ignite 14.