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Shobana Jeyasingh founded Shobana Jeyasingh Dance in 1988 and has since created over 60 original and critically acclaimed theatre, site, and lens-based works. These have toured the UK, Europe, North America, India, China, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Her most recent works include the site specific work ‘Outlander’ (2016), commissioned by the Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and featured in the Venice Biennale Danza 2016; ‘Material Men’ (2015), commissioned by Southbank Centre, premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in September 2015; ‘Bayadère – The Ninth Life’ (2015) commissioned by The Royal Ballet Studio Programme, premiered at the Linbury Studio Theatre, ROH in March 2015.

Phase one of ‘Trespass’, which explored the emerging possibilities for relationships between human behaviour and intelligent environments, was premiered at The Anatomy Museum at King’s College London in 2015, as a result of the company’s inclusion in the Cultural Institute at King’s, Knowledge Producer’s programme. ‘In Flagrante’ (2013), a lens based work inspired by mitosis was premiered at The Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome as part of the exhibition Lens on Life and then seen in London and Heidelberg.

Shobana has choreographed other site specific works, notably ‘Counterpoint’ for the courtyard of Somerset House, London which featured 22 dancers and 55 fountains and ‘TooMortal’, a work designed exclusively for pews of historic churches, which toured to Stockholm, Belgrade, Italy and the UK.

Shobana has honorary doctorates from De Montfort University, Leicester and the University of Chichester. She and the company have been the recipients of numerous awards and honours over the years including the Time Out London award for best choreography. Her work ‘Palimpsest’ was nominated for a South Bank Show Award for dance. The company was nominated Best Independent Company by the Critics’ Circle in 2012, 2013 and 2015.