LOUISE BENNETT

Artistic Direction

• London Vocational Ballet School 2024-present

• The National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, Residential Performance Company 2023/24

• The National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, ‘re|generation’ 2022

Rehearsal Director experience

• New English Ballet Theatre 2025

• Tanz Münster 2024

• Ballett am Rhein, Düsseldorf (2020-2022 full time, 2022-23 as a guest)

• Ballet Shoes, London Children's Ballet - rehearsal assistant (Choreographer: Matthew Hart)

• The Enchantress (Sisters Grimm/James Cousins)

• Images Ballet Company 2019

• Richard Chappell Dance

• Sisters Grimm Montpelier Gala 2018

• Voices of the Amazon (Producers: Sisters Grimm, Choreographer: Helen Pickett)

Teaching - companies (UK)

• Ballet Black

• BalletBoyz

• Cats feature film cast (morning class and on set coaching for Francesca Hayward)

• Company Wayne McGregor

• Corey Baker Dance

• The Enchantress (Sisters Grimm/James Cousins)

• English National Ballet

• Enter Achilles cast (Rambert/DV8)

• Fabula Collective

• Inala (Sisters Grimm)

• Julie Cunningham Company

• Matthew Bourne's New Adventures

• Michael Clark Company

• National Youth Ballet

• On The Town cast (chor. Ashley Page)

• Rambert

• Rambert2

• Richard Chappell Dance

• Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company

• Sydney Dance Company on tour

• The Royal Ballet

• Tavaziva Dance

• Tree of Codes (Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet)

• Voices of the Amazon (Sisters Grimm/Helen Pickett)

International guest teaching: companies

• Ballet de L’Opéra du Rhin, Mulhouse

• Ballet of Difference, Köln

• Ballett am Rhein, Düsseldorf

• Ballett Basel

• Ballett Zürich

• Bern Ballet

• Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon

• MiR Dance Company, Gelsenkirchen

• Stuttgart Ballet

• Zfin Malta

Teaching - schools and courses

• BalletBoyz Dancers Course and children's classes

• Ballet International (Stockholm)

• Ballettakademien (Stockholm)

• Danceworks International Ballet Academy

• London Studio Centre

• London Vocational Ballet School

• Mark Bruce Company Summer School

• Professional Intensive in partnership with Monique Jonas

• Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance

• Trinity Laban

• Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK)

Teaching - open classes

• BalletBoyz

• Ballett am Rhein open class

• Bodies in Action

• Central School of Ballet

• Danceworks

• Marylebone Dance Studio

• Pineapple Studios

Performing

• Royal Swedish Ballet

• Norwegian National Ballet

• English National Ballet

Choreography

• New works for FOOTPRINTS (LVBS summer performances)

• New work for LVBS for ‘MoveIt’

• ‘Fairies’ virtual reality project, Ballett am Rhein

• ‘Flora’, National Youth Ballet

• 'Ada', National Youth Ballet

• 'A Frosty Fable', National Youth Ballet

• ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’, Encore Dance Company

• 'Summer Adventure', Professional Dance Experience

• Resident Choreographer, Professional Dance Experience Summer Ballet Course

• 'Concerto in Red', The Royal Ballet School

• Dancelines choreographic workshop with Wayne McGregor

• Draftworks, Royal Opera House

• 'Twin Figures', Ballet Central

• 'Quintet', Artelier

• 'Syntax', Tivoli Ballet, Copenhagen

• 'Resolution!', 2008-2010

• ‘Check-in/Check-out’, Outside Edge Theatre Company at Vault Festival

• Winner of Ninette de Valois and Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Awards (Royal Ballet School)

Teaching - audition classes

• Company Wayne McGregor Auditions

• Rambert Dance auditions

• English National Ballet School Auditions, Catania

• ENB YouthCo

Company Managing

• BalletBoyz, National and International tours

• Richard Chappell Dance

• Sisters Grimm, trailer shoot at Sadler's Wells and Voices of the Amazon performance at Latitude Festival

Producing

• Creative producer, ‘Performing Hope’, in collaboration with Central School of Ballet

• Producer, ‘What London Watches’ at the Barbican