About Us

Celebrating 10 Years in 2023

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Celebrating 10 Years in 2023 〰️

Our focus is to both create and produce high quality opportunities for dance artists, choreographers and companies to present their work to audiences within Scotland and beyond.

Dance Horizons was initiated in 2013 by current Director Oliver James Anwyl with the ambition of championing performance within the field of contemporary dance. Opening doors for dance artists and companies at all stages in their career as a catalyst for presenting their work on the public stage.

The company offers services to artists at all stages of their career to present performance events, touring and Dance Horizons’ programme at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Previous clients include; Kennedy Muntanga Dance Theatre (UK), Lost Movement (IT) Abian Hernandez (ES), EQ Dance Company (UK), Fiona Houez (FR), Paul Scott Bullen (UK) and Jack Stinton Dance Company (UK).

Dance Horizons also runs a series of initiatives including networking and artistic development events. Past events have been run in partnership with leading international organisations such as Dance UK and the Foundation for Community Dance. At its core, the work of Dance Horizons was founded around its flagship event, Innovations Contemporary Dance Platform.

Innovations has held platform editions annually since 2014 presenting eclectic and diverse programmes by artists from the UK and abroad. 2018 saw the platform open its first Edinburgh Fringe Festival Edition, giving artists the opportunity to present their work in the heart of the biggest cultural and arts festival on the planet. To date, the platform has presented over 7 editions of works by dance makers and companies at various stages of their professional careers. Innovations is one of the UK's largest, independent, annual dance platforms outside of London.

Day to day the company continues to provide services and support to small-midscale dance companies and independent artists both in Scotland and UK wide through a network of venue partnerships and collaborating companies. Dance Horizons consists of a small, dedicated team with a broad pool of experience and expertise across the dance industry.