Vanhulle Dance Theatre

we create inspiring dance productions and offer unforgettable experiences through performances, festivals, workshops, projects and short films.

Vanhulle Dance Theatre was established in 2014. VDT’S first full-length production, ‘Angles in Life’, was created in collaboration with Mickael Marso Riviere and Nicolas Vladyslav, touring nationally in 2015. Reformed into a dance film, with Director of Photography Mat Beckett (River-Rea-Films), showing internationally at film festivals such as Pool 15, Berlin, Dance Film Festival UK, London, and selected for Dance-on-Film-Screening at 2018 Woman in Dance Leadership Conference in New York City.

In 2016 Vanhulle Dance Theatre went to Hong Kong to present ‘Infinite womanhood’ and was selected as an artist in residency. Vanhulle Dance theatre has strong teaching reputation – nationally and internationally – working regularly with organisations such as The Place, Trip Space (London), and Rambert. Vanhulle Dance Theatre has led choreographic and martial arts into dance workshops with CAT programmes including NSCD CAT, Cat Lowry (Northwest), CAT-Swindon, DanceEast-CAT, and DanceCity -CAT. Vanhulle Dance Theatre has taught internationally in Portugal, Greece, and Belgium.

Vanhulle Dance Theatre was artist in residence at Pavilion Dance (Southwest) and Deda (Derby).

During lockdown 2021, the company was commissioned by Motus(Milton Keynes) to create ‘Moo Shim’(Korean for ‘Empty Mind’), performed at MK Gallery and 6 outdoor performances at Mk Shopping-Centre. The company was later commissioned by DanceCity(Newcastle) to recreate ‘Moo Shim’ with BA(hons) 3^rd Year students in January 2022.

Vanhulle Dance Theatre has received commissions from The Lighthouse (Poole) ‘Echo’ 2018, Muda (Belgium) ‘Schoen’ 2021, DanceCity (Newcastle) ‘Moo Shim’, Swindon Dance ‘The Last March of the Ents’ 2022’, NSCD to create a new work in Summer 2022, and DanceCity to create a new work in 2023.

Following the success of the ACE funded research and development, VDT are currently in the creation stages of ‘Dovetail’, VDT’s upcoming outdoor work, premiering at DanceCity (Newcastle) on the 21/05/2022. Choreographed by Marso Mickael Riviere, performed by the Co-directors Laura Vanhulle and Oliver Russell.