Julyen Hamilton

 Julyen Hamilton has been making dances, directing and teaching for the past 30 years.

He was born in England, then lived in Amsterdam and now is based in Girona, Spain.
In 1984 he was awarded the 'Zilveren Dansprijs' by the VSCD in Holland.

Trained in a period of experimentation in London in the mid-70s , he has constantly made work from a radical point of view.

His work, both in company and solo, develops dance for the theatre
where dancers and light designer are directed to compose pieces instantly,
a process of practising improvisation in rehearsal and in the moment of performance.
Hamilton creates his own personal language where movement and text constantly intertwine
and are passed amongst the performers as a way of manifesting the sharing of the imagination.

He is also invited to play with musicians, to choreograph for other dancers and to collaborate with other directors.

Since 1990 he has made more than 100 solos which have been seen all over the world. They are a highly original interplay between dance, live text and light. His solo Cell premiered in Barcelona on 2004 and has been performed regularly since then;
his latest solo is entitled 'How It Is Made' and premiered in Paris in autumn 2007, before playing in Germny and Belgium.

His teaching work comes straight from the stage experience; it goes deeply into the compositional aspects of creativity through the areas of the physical body, space, time, dramaturgy and voice.