Andrew McNicol is a freelance British choreographer noted as a “rising star” (BBC News) and “talented beyond his years”. Born in Hull, his choreographic work began whilst studying at The Royal Ballet School, where he won the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic competition. He later completed his formal training with an MA at Central’s Professional Choreographic Programme.
Andrew has choreographed internationally including for Joffrey Ballet (Chicago) Royal Ballet (London), Royal Ballet of Flanders (Belgium), Northern Ballet (UK) BalletX (Philadelphia), twice for New York Choreographic Institute (New York) and Tulsa Ballet (Oklahoma) among others.
He was the recipient of the 2018 BalletX Choreographic Fellowship and created Requiem, hailed as “powerful and sensitive” Main Line Times. In 2019 he created Yonder Blue for Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet receiving critical acclaim; “gives a sense of awesome wonderment” Chicago Tribune “A rare gem of a ballet that transcends the here and now” Lynn Shapiro.
Andrew is a versatile choreographer, alongside creating narrative and abstract modern ballets for the stage he has also created award winning dance works for film and site-specific projects, most notably for The London Olympics 2012.
Andrew founded McNicol Ballet Collective (MBC), a modern ballet collective to forge artistic collaborations across arts disciplines that use the rich language of ballet to address contemporary themes. MBC has already been hailed as “a daring project from McNicol... that of course, only adds to the excitement.” Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper.
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