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Meet The Dancers
TOS22 Team
Tilly is a freelance dance artist based in the UK. Tilly has worked with numerous companies throughout the UK & Ireland as a dancer with Rees Dance, FRONTLINEDance, DRIFT, Ascension Dance, the Commonwealth Games, R.W.D. and iiD. Tilly also creates her work dance work as co-artistic director of H&T Creative and she is an associate artist with Dance Woking. Tilly graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance with a First Class Honours Degree in 2018. Following this she joined post-graduate company Emergence where she completed her Masters in Dance Performance & Professional Practices, graduating with a Distinction in 2019.
Matilda Maginnis
Company Dancer
@matildamaginnis
Laura Hague
Company Dancer
@_laura_hague_
Laura Hague is a London based dance artist who graduated from The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in 2018. In the years after her graduation she has worked professionally in the commercial and contemporary dance industries. Her credits include Sky Arts, The Royal Albert Hall, NEC Birmingham and FILA. She has also choreographed her own screen dance work, some of which was premiered at the US based Film festival ‘Distance Disco Project’.
Sophie Page
Company Dancer
@page_soph | @masshysteriacollective
Sophie is a freelance dance artist based in the UK and travelling around Europe. She works within MassHysteria Collective, a multidisciplinary collective, alongside 11 other female artists across Europe. She has also worked and performed for Mimbre Acrobatics & Daryl Beeton Productions, Motionhouse, Protein, Hagit Yakira, Struan Leslie, H2 Dance and Lizzie Kew Ross. During her training at Trinity Laban Conservative of Music and Dance; Sophie found her interest in the practise of somatics and improvisation coinciding with the efficiency and execution of acrobatics and floor work.
Ishmael Khan
Company Dancer
@supreme_khan
Ishmael is 28 from Birmingham and has been acting since he was 18. He has found steady development in the arts via physical theatre and dance, working with company's such as Frantic Assembly. The basis of Ishmael's discipline is set in parkour/freerunning, which he has been a practitioner of for nearly 15 years. This has earned him opportunities to work in stunts for Sky and Marvel where he was nominated by the screen actors guild for outstanding work in a stunt ensemble on a motion picture in 2016. Ishmael enjoys the dynamics of the set for The Other Side and deeply recognises the comrade between the dancers when facing the challenges of the show.
Abbie Thompson
Company Apprentice
@abbie.thompson98
Abbie has also been dancing with Stopgap Dance Company since 2019. Beginning as an apprentice dancer through Northern School of Contemporary Dance postgraduate apprenticeship scheme, after graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. During her time with Stopgap, she had performed in a number of projects for stage, outdoor, gallery and film. Working with choreographers including Lucy Bennett, Chris Pavia, Siobhan Hayes and Maria Koliopoulou. Abbie has completed Seedbed, an inclusive dance teacher training programme and uses this as the fundamentals of her practice.
Lexy Garner
Associate Artist
Lexy is a midlands based dance artist and has been working as Associate Artist with Ascension since 2019. During her training, she performed in an array of contemporary and interdisciplinary works choreographed by artists including Lea Anderson, James Wilton, Igor and Moreno and George Saxon. Within Ascension, she was a performer for the duet Resilient in BBC’s Dance Passion, Innovations by Dance Horizon, Edinburgh and Resolution by The Place. Whilst studying at Coventry University and Viljandi Cultural Academy, Lexy found interest in interdisciplinary collaboration in performance and continues to explore this with high-energy dynamic work involving set and outdoor performance.
Ashley Jordan (AJ)
Company Director, Choreographer and Dancer
@ashleyltjordan
Ashley (AJ) studied Dance at Chichester University and was part of their third-year dance company, 3fall. Graduating, he then auditioned and was selected for Mapdance, Chichester University’s Dance Performance MA touring company which took him performing work across the UK and Europe. During this time, he worked with Abi Mortimer (Lila Dance), Jonathon Burrow, Kerry Nicholls, Ofra Idel & Rick Nodine and gained experience in number of ways of performing contemporary dance.
He completed his MA in 2016 and went on to work with Highly Sprung Performance Company based in Coventry. He toured as a cast member on Urban Astronaut and Fallout. He then become an Associate Artist supporting workshop delivery across their schools & youth programmes.
Between 2016 – 2020, AJ would work as a freelance performer with Autin Dance Theatre, Mercurial Dance, Balbir Singh, Upswing Aerial and Corey Baker Dance across several dance projects for both the indoor and outdoor settings.
Ashley enjoys performing but is keen to develop his experience as a company director and choreographer.
Ben Morley
Associate Director and Dancer
@_bfm90_
Ben studied at Coventry University graduating with a BA (hons) Degree in Dance, where he trained in contemporary dance technique, choreography and workshop leadership. In 2016 he was awarded the 'Rising Star' award at the Coventry and Warwickshire Tourism and Culture Awards. With a background in trampolining and parkour, he is interested in how contemporary dance can be entwined with other movement styles to develop a new physical language and how he can bring this raw style of movement to the show. One of Ben’s highlights is being able to perform and feel the energy which’s drives him, which still feels the same when Ben was in year 7 and he did his very first performance.
