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OPEN CALL for video submissions to join Hofesh Shechter Company’s award-winning development programme.
Shechter II returns in 2024 Hofesh Shechter Company announced our global search for the next generation of world class contemporary dancers aged 18-25, to be part of the award-winning company Shechter II. Applications for the 2024 cohort opened in May receiving over 1200 video submissions from across the world. Launched in 2018, Shechter II is […]
Hofesh Shechter Company remain part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio of Organisations
We are pleased to be remaining part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio of Organisations and to be receiving continued funding investment from 2023-2026. This core funding will enable us to devise a world-class programme for artists, participants, communities, partners and audiences across England, the UK and beyond. Through the creation of our high-quality, critically-acclaimed […]
Interview with Hofesh – Cannes World Film Festival
After winning Best Dance Film at Cannes World Film Festival for his debut short film POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut, Hofesh discusses the importance of art, his fascination with social power and why the opening scene was filmed 52 times. To read the full interview click HERE
The BRIT School and Hofesh Shechter Company announce new partnership
Hofesh Shechter Company and The BRIT School are delighted to announce a new partnership which will develop a multi-stranded programme of activity as part of a shared commitment to increasing diversity and equal opportunities within dance and the wider arts sector. As part of this partnership Hofesh Shechter Company and The BRIT school will re-imagine […]
FURTHER UK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED FOR DOUBLE MURDER 2021-22
Hofesh Shechter Company has announced further dates for the critically acclaimed Double Murder, presented as two distinctly contrasting pieces for our times – Clowns and The Fix. This thrilling new creation premiered at Sadler’s Wells in September to great applause and is currently playing across Europe as part of an extensive international tour. In 2022 […]
Hofesh Shechter Company and Northern School of Contemporary Dance Announce New Partnership
Hofesh Shechter Company is delighted to announce a new partnership with Northern School of Contemporary Dance, as part of a joint commitment to increasing diversity and equal opportunities within the dance sector. Sharon Watson MBE, CEO and Principal of NSCD, said: “The relationship being developed with Hofesh Shechter Company and Northern School of Contemporary Dance has the […]
Shechter II return with POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED
In January, 10 exceptional young artists from 7 different countries, selected at open auditions from over 1000 dancers gathered in the UK to begin our Shechter II 2020 Programme.* After their orientation and 6 weeks of creation and rehearsals with Hofesh and Rehearsal Director Chien-Ming Chang on a new version of Hofesh’s iconic piece Political […]
Hofesh Shechter Company Wins Prestigious Fedora Prize
Hofesh Shechter Company is delighted to be awarded the prestigious FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2020 for LIGHT: Bach dances (working title), a major new work that is due to open at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen on 30 April and will run until 15 May 2021 prior to a European […]
Hofesh Shechter Company awarded Culture Recovery Fund grant
Hofesh Shechter Company are extremely thankful to the Treasury, the Culture Secretary and the teams at the DCMS and ACE for awarding us a grant from the Culture Recovery Fund. This welcome news comes after many months of cancelled performances and projects, resulting in a significant loss to our earned income, and is the vital […]
Political Mother – 10 Years On
An interview with Hofesh Shechter ‘a work of galvanising challenging power’ – Judith Mackrell, The Guardian Political Mother was Hofesh Shechter’s first full-length work. It premiered in 2010; a worldwide success he repeated the following year with a choreographer’s cut version for 40 performers that Metro called ‘a howling beast of a dance show’. What […]