Cameron McMillan - Choreographer

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Associate Artist of DanceEast, The National Dance Agency for the east of England, an independent choreographer, and freelance dancer. Cameron always made use of choreographic opportunities in the companies he has danced for to learn his craft. With a passion for visceral resonant physicality, he has been developing his choreographic voice throughout his career.

In 1999 he created his first work Unsuspecting View, which was toured nationally by the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2001. Since then, Cameron has made four works on Rambert Dance Company dancers, including, Verge, which was taken into the main stage repertoire in November 2006, with designs by celebrated fashion designer Roland Mouret, and music composed by British Composer of the Year nominee Elspeth Brooke. In 2007 he was again, commissioned by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and his work Equilibrium, which received national acclaim, and was subsequently toured internationally to Sydney, Australia and China. In 2007, upon invitation, he took part in the Dancelines choreographic course at the Royal Opera House and showed his work Quartet in the Touch Wood programme at The Place, London. His duet …and then, you were gone was performed at Rafael Bonachela’s curate 62C (Six To See) at the Southbank Centre, London. He has been commissioned by Intoto Dance for which he made Await 14 , and Blind Action for the 2010 Transitions Dance Company (Trinity/Laban). In March 2009, he was selected as a finalist and awarded 3rd Prize for his work ESO, created on The Milwaukee Ballet for the Genesis International Choreographic Competition in Milwaukee, USA. In November 2010, Cameron premiered his first full evening work In The Garden Of Good And Evil on the Pecsi Balett in Hungary, celebrating the company’s 50th Anniversary, and it’s role as ambassador for the European Capital Of Culture – Pecs 2010. In 2011 he premiered a new commission for the RNZB Satisfied With Great Success, and the duet If Nobody Speaks... a ROH2/Dance East co-commission, and was selected to take part in Sadler’s Wells Summer University - the four year choreographic development programme, run by Sadler’s Wells.

Alongside working with a wide range dance companies, from classical to contemporary, he has also worked as a choreographer and performer in the commercial world of music and fashion. From choreographing and performing in electro-funk musician Caspa Codina’s music video Get Your Motor Started, and as a choreographer with Xenomania Records, to numerous high-end fashion editorials. He recently collaborated with Fashion Editor of the Financial Times How To Spend It Magazine, Damian Foxe, and fashion photographer Yuval Hen on the photo story Dance Me To The End Of Love for the first SMART ARTS Arts and Culture special of the magazine, and featured in the SS12 Everos Aether fashion film Erinyes.

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