Mission Statement

Neon Dance connects people with rigorous artists and original thinkers.

Neon Dance creates an altruistic environment that enables risk taking and collaboration to flourish.

Neon Dance develops works that explore technologies and design with the body as the central tenet.

Board of Trustees

Adrienne Hart (Artistic Director / Choreographer)

Adrienne initially trained at Swindon Dance, winning a scholarship at 17 to train at London Contemporary Dance School. Since graduating, she has worked in Norway, France, Germany, Belgium, Kosovo, Russia, USA and Japan. Adrienne is an in demand choreographer having been commissioned and supported by Arts Council England, British Council, The Place, Creative England, Modern Art Oxford, Glastonbury Festival, Art Front Gallery, Sadler’s Wells and Pavilion Dance South West amongst others. Between 2015-18 she took part in Sadler's Wells Summer University, designed to support mid-career artists. In 2019, she was selected onto Oxford Cultural Leaders, an executive leadership programme. She is currently a Studio Wayne McGregor Questlab Artist.

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Maeve O'Neill (Executive Producer)

As Executive Producer Maeve builds and sustains relationships with venues, festival and organisations as well as seeking unusual contexts and partnerships in which to present Neon Dance in the UK and further afield. She is founder of Rua Arts specialising in project management and mentoring and has produced Blind Summit’s award winning show, The Table at The Pleasance for Edinburgh Festival Fringe, national tours of The Diary of a Hounslow Girl by Ambreen Razia with Black Theatre Live and House Theatre. As Company Producer for Simon Mole she has produced 5 national tours. She originally trained at The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin and completed a BA in Modern Drama Studies at Brunel University.

ANNAPAOLA LESO (Dance Artist)

Annapaola Leso is an Italian dancer and improviser, based in Berlin. She began her training in Verona going onto study in Milan at the Academy of Contemporary Dance and Theatre. Graduating in 2009, Annapaola has since been working as a freelancer dancer and assistant with the Taiwanese choreographer Shang-Chi Sun. Her collaboration as dancer and choreographer with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin started in 2013 for the piece “ Capìtan Luiso Ferrauto”, she was also involved in the project “Camera Lucida” in LaborGras in 2013 and at Klangwerkstatt Berlin Festival in 2014. She joined Sasha Waltz & Guest Company for the production “Romeo & Juliette” in 2015.

Annapaola has been a member of Neon Dance since 2014.

AOI NAKAMURA (Dance Artist)

Aoi trained at Leipzig Opera ballet school and graduated from the State Ballet School Berlin, 2006. She has worked with the State Theater Wiesbaden and has been a member of Jasmin Vardimon Company since 2012. Other performance credits include working with Punchdrunk, Marguerite Donlon, Stephan Thoss, Angie Hiesel Production, Itzik Galili, Rafael Bonachela, Marco Goecke, Idan Cohen, Uwe Scholz and Medhi Walerski. Aoi choreographed Ototoxic in 2008, which was awarded first prize at the international choreography competition at Aarhus in 2010 and has recently founded AΦE
with Esteban Fourmi, creating experimental performance in the live art scene.

Aoi has been a member of Neon Dance since 2013.

Gyung Moo Kim (Dance Artist)

Born in South Korea and now based in Berlin (Germany), Gyung Moo Kim has worked as a dancer and performer for Sidra Bell, Gallim Dance, NYTB in NYC and Fabien Prioville, Helena Waldmann, Alexander Kolpin, collective E.K.K.O, Minako Seki and Ana Borralho & João Galante. He won first prize both in Dance and Choreography in the 15th Stuttgart solo festival with “Grief Point”, a collaborative work with Sidra Bell and currently works with the award winning Sasha Waltz & Guests in Germany.

Moo joined Neon Dance in 2019.