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Johnny Autin with Autin Dance Theatre

Seoul Performing Arts Festival

Autin Dance Theatre is an innovative touring dance company, established in 2013 with acclaimed French choreographer & Birmingham-based Artistic Director Johnny Autin at the helm.

Their mission is to inspire, educate and instigate positive social changes by delivering relevant, highly responsive, multi-disciplinary arts activities to communities, in theatres, outdoors and in non-traditional spaces. The company provides extensive learning & engagement programmes with a wide range of participants across several local communities.

Autin Dance Theatre draws on contemporary social issues (environment, community, relationships, identities) to make engaging, highly accessible and relevant performance work. The company uses its unique blend of contemporary storytelling, striking physicality, and innovative large designs to transport audiences and communities along carefully choreographed moving outdoor processions and static performances.

The company is a collaborative ensemble of creatives who devise and produce socially engaged and mass participatory movement performance projects across the UK & internationally. They have built a strong reputation with high levels of engagement for their work with critically acclaimed productions including A Posi+ive Life, Dystopia, Square One, Street Games & Out of the Deep Blue. In 2023, the company premiered their brand new spectacle Parade – The Giant Wheel.

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