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Hofesh Shechter Company

Theatre of Dreams
Hofesh Shechter
Show
2025/2026

High voltage

Acclaimed time and again by Danse Danse audiences, Hofesh Shechter and his formidable tribe take us on a dizzying dive, headfirst, into a fantasy world where dreams and reality collide. Quite an event!

Warning: Includes loud music, haze and a brief scene of nudity.


Hofesh Shechter has been shaking up the dance world for over twenty years with his powerful, visceral works. His latest creation catapults his inimitable dancers into the realm of imagination and the subconscious. What is the strange stuff our illusions are made of? Curtains open and close, revealing scenes of spellbinding surrealism. Theatre of Dreams explores the territory of the in between. Bodies unleashed, between dreams and chimeras, revealing fears, hopes, desires and a myriad of emotions that penetrate not only the dreaming mind but also our waking thoughts. To a percussive soundtrack by Shechter himself, performed live by three musicians, the dance pulses, feverish and wild, under lights sculpted by his long-time collaborator Tom Visser. A dreamlike journey from chaos to beauty.

Before and after the show

Tuesday, November 4
Live DJ set with DJ Evita.

Wednesday, November 5
Soundtrack by Hofesh Shechter Company ✦ DJ Evita Playlist ✦ Post-show talk with the artists of Hofesh Shechter Company.

Thursday, November 6
Pre-show talk at 7:15 p.m.
, ECHOES OF DANCE — Spotlight on Hofesh Shechter with Lisa Davies (EDCM) and Alisia Pobega (Danse à la carte) ✦ Soundtrack by Hofesh Shechter Company ✦ DJ Evita Playlist.

Friday, November 7
Original soundtrack by Hofesh Shechter Company ✦ DJ Evita Playlist ✦ Post-show talk with the artists of Hofesh Shechter Company.

Saturday, November 8
Live DJ set with DJ Evita.

Details

Artist(s)

Choreographer
Hofesh Shechter

Shechter is recognised as one of the most exciting artists making work for both stage and film and renowned for composing atmospheric musical scores to complement the unique physicality of his movement style.

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Company

Hofesh Shechter Company

Hofesh Shechter Company is a boundary-breaking dance company that produces work created by Artistic Director Hofesh Shechter OBE and an extraordinary company of internationally diverse dancers. 

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Credits

Choreography and Music Hofesh Shechter. 

LightingTom Visser. 

Costume design Osnat Kelner. 

Associate Artistic Director Bruno Guillore.

Music Collaborator Yaron Engler. 

Set Collaborator Niall Black. 

Dancers Tristan Carter, Robinson Cassarino, Frédéric Despierre, Rachel Fallon, Cristel de Frankrijker, Mickaël Frappat, Justine Gouache, Zakarius Harry, Alex Haskins, Keanah Faith Simin, Juliette Valerio, Chanel Vyent.

Musicians Yaron Engler, Sabio Janiak, James Keane.

Additional Music 
I Remember interprété par Molly Drake. Avec l'aimable autorisation de Domino Publishing Company Limited, (PRS) o/b/ Bryter Music. 
I Remember Arrangé et interprété par Nell Catchpole. Avec l'aimable autorisation de Domino Publishing Company Limited, (PRS). 

Produced by Hofesh Shechter Company. 

Commissioned by Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells: Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Seongnam Arts Center/Seongnam Cultural Foundation; Danse Danse Montréal; MC2 : Maison de la Culture de Grenoble - Scène nationale; Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen; Central - La Louvière; Théâtre Sénart - Scène Nationale; Shanghai International Dance Center Theater (SIDCT); Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale; Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT); La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale; Maison de la danse, Lyon - Pôle européen de creation; Les Gémeaux - Scène Nationale de Sceaux; Château Rouge, scène conventionnée – Annemasse; Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale; Scène Nationale ALBI-Tarn; Le Carré Sainte-Maxime with support from Theater Rotterdam; Les Salins - Scène Nationale de Martigues; Marche Teatro / Inteatro Festival; La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de -Marne and The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund. 

Individual Commissioner Georgia Rosengarten. 

Hofesh Shechter Company 

Board of Directors Martine Simmonds (Interim Chair), Theresa Beattie OBE, Paul Burger OBE and Steven Fogel.

Patron Georgia Rosengarten. 

Founding Patrons Angela Bernstein CBE, Robin Pauley, Bruno Wang. 

TEAM

Artistic Director Hofesh Shechter OBE. 

Executive Producer Colette Hansford. 

Associate Artistic Director Bruno Guillore. 

Head of Development Claire Lee. 

Head of Production and Touring Adam Hooper. 

Head of Education and Learning Partnerships David Steele. 

Executive Assistant and Senior Administrator Melanie Clark. 

Producer – Artist Development Lucy Moelwyn-Hughes. 

Digital, Comms and Content Producer James Shaw. 

General Manager Emma Baker-Griffin. 

Project Administrator Chi-chi Hsiao.

Shechter Moves Administrator Tristan Carter.

Senior Producer Lucy Monkman.

Producer Theatre of Dreams Niamh O’Flaherty.

Publicist (UK) Clióna Roberts for CRPR crpr.co.uk. 

Rehearsal Director Frédéric Despierre. 

Rehearsal Assistant Rachel Fallon.

Hofesh Shechter Company is supported with public funding through Arts Council England and benefits from the support of BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of its projects. 

Hofesh Shechter is an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells and Hofesh Shechter Company is Associate Company at Brighton Dome. 

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