Edd Mitton
Edd was born and brought up in Hertfordshire, and completed his professional dance training at London Studio Centre, achieving a first-class BA (Hons). He has enjoyed a varied career as a dancer, teacher, rehearsal director and stager. His performing experience includes work by Martha Graham, Sir Robert Cohan and Sir Kenneth MacMillan, among many others. Some personal highlights include dancing the role of the Minotaur in Graham’s Errand Into the Maze with Yorke Dance Project – the first British company to do so since the 1970s, and having a solo created for him as part of Cohan’s Afternoon Conversations with Dancers – the late choreographer’s final work, which was also filmed under the title Lockdown Portraits. Other performing experience includes Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (UK and International Tour), Cabaret (Savoy Theatre), and Pet Shop Boys/Javier de Frutos’ The Most Incredible Thing (Sadlers Wells), which Edd went on to restage for Charlotte Ballet, North Carolina in 2018.
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During his time as rehearsal director for Yorke Dance Project, Edd assisted on the staging of Kenneth MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles, Playground, and Isadora, as well as the company’s film adaptation of Sea of Troubles, which went on to win Best Dance Film at the National Dance Awards 2024. In the same year Edd completed his Professional Award in Benesh Movement Notation with Benesh International, and has since gone on to stage MacMillan’s Concerto for the graduating students of the Dutch National Ballet School.
Throughout his career Edd has maintained an interest in teaching. He has worked with many of the UK’s top conservatoires and is a current faculty member at London Studio Centre, where he teaches Graham-based contemporary technique, and English National Ballet School, teaching Benesh Movement Notation. In 2024 Edd took over the Artistic Directorship of INTOTO Dance – London Studio Centre’s contemporary dance company for students in their final year of training.