Gary Clarke is an acclaimed British choreographer, dancer and artistic director. His theatrical dance works have toured extensively both nationally and internationally to critical and audience acclaim. Gary has received a multitude of awards for his groundbreaking work including a UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance, a Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Best Independent Company, a Herald Angel Award and The Brian Glover Memorial Award. He has created stage and site-specific work for a number of companies and organisations including Opera North, Sky Arts, Ludus Dance Company, Akademi, Hull City of Culture 2017 and The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Gary has also worked as a movement specialist on a number of large scale Hollywood feature films including World War Z, J K Rowling's Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and The Mummy. His performance credits include work with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Lloyd Newson’s DV8 Physical Theatre, balletLORENT, Sadler's Wells Productions, Phoenix Dance Theatre and Jerome Bel / Candoco Dance Company. In 2017, Gary was appointed as an Honorary Fellow at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and is the director of the touring works COAL and Wasteland.
