Artistic Director
Darren trained at Rambert Dance School (1987-90), at the Laban Centre, and Transitions Dance Company (1990-91). He has danced with David Massingham Dance, Janet Smith and Dancers, PAGE Dance Theatre (Freiburg, Germany), Mark Bruce Dance Company, Small Bones Dance Company, Jeremy James Dance Company, Matthew Bourne (SWAN LAKE original cast, CINDERELLA, NUTCRACKER! and PLAY WITHOUT WORDS), Random Dance Company, Snag Project (Jo Fong and Sarah Warsop), Richard Alston Dance Company and Unbroken (a dance theatre piece at the Gate theatre). Darren has been teaching at Rambert Dance School since 2003 and joined Richard Alston Dance Company as rehearsal director in August 2005 - 2008. Darren began choreographing in 2007 and  made two pieces, ROMEO ERROR (for Evolution at The Place) and TEMPT MY BETTER ANGEL (SPNM project for RADC);  Darren made a second piece NO MORE GHOSTS (2008) for  the Richard Alston Dance Company. Following that Darren has also created a piece on the Centre for Advance Training at The Place for the EXCELLENT Gala which was staged at Sadler’s Wells. In 2008 Darren was a part of the international research program CHOREOROAM at The Place where he created a solo on himself, STICKS AND BONES which has led to two further solo pieces for himself FROM THE WAIST UP and AFTER EFFECTS.

Executive Director
Martin Collins MA, MSc began dancing with the Splinters dance company before training in theatre at Lancaster University, Dance Theatre & Dance Science at Trinity Laban. He has worked as a performer with some of the most innovative dance and theatre companies in the UK including Levantes Dance Theatre, Darren Ellis Dance, Ballet Boyz, Dukes theatre Company, Marlow Theatre, The Grange Park Opera, English National Opera, Tate Modern and the Nigel Charnock Company. He has also performed in a number of different feature films for the UK and Japan, TV and site-specific works commissioned by the BBC, RM Europe, and Independent British Film.

Martin has produced work for a number of prestigious national and international platforms including British Dance Edition, Sadler’s Wells, South Bank, the Royal Festival Hall, Roubaix and Burgos festivals. This has been done in collaboration with companies such as Lost Dog, Random Dance, Company of Elders, Royal Ballet School, Shobana Jeyasing, Henri Oguike Dance Company, Darren Ellis Dance, Pina Bausch Company, and Sarah Linstra.

Martin is currently the Company Director for Darren Ellis Dance, Artstrust (Production Company), and managing the Centre for Advanced Training at Trinity Laban.

Composer
Wayne’s collaboration with Darren Ellis Dance begun with Romeo Error in 2007, since then Wayne has been involved in numerous projects with the company including projects for Bloomberg. Wayne also composed the music for ‘No More Ghosts’, 2009.

Wayne Walker – Allen is a Musician and Composer who writes and performs music for contemporary dance, theatre and film. Wayne uses an array of traditional instruments to create sound. Percussion, Piano, Guitars, Accordions and Voice and also enjoy’s designing and creating in the digital realm, making soundscapes using samplers, synthesisers and sequencers.His recent Dance work includes Composition for “The Great Piratical Rumbustification” Written by Margaret Mahy. Directed & Choreographed by Kitty Winter, “I Hate The Way I Love You” Choreographed by Chris Evans and for stage “Under The Story Tree” December 2010, commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout to create an original score for a new play written by Robin Kingsland. Directed by Andrew Breakwell. “The Night Pirates” October 2010 Commissioned by Theatre Hullaballoo in Darlington, “Little Fish” February 2010, Original music and underscore for a new play by Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson. Performed at The Space, London, “The Saving of Santa” December 2009, Original music and underscore for The Space’s Christmas show. Performed at The Space, London.

Lighting Designer
Guy’s collaboration with Darren Ellis Dance has been a long standing one; initially Guy designed No More Ghosts, 2009 and most recently collaborating with Darren on After Effects, 2011.

Dance includes: Love & War, Sea of Bones, Bad History, Green Apples, Dive (Mark Bruce Company); Bruise Blood, Flicker (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company); The Land of Yes, The Land of No, Square Map of Q4 (Bonachela Dance Company); And Who Shall Come to the Ball? (Candoco); About Around, This Moment is Your Life, The Diminishing Present (bgroup); Odyssey (Krische /Wright); Havana Rakatan (Sadler’s Wells); Mischief (Theatre Rites); No More Ghosts, (Richard Alston Dance Company); Sivaloka (Atma Dance); Me+You=5 (Robin Dingemans); Show, Orange Gina, Sleep Talking, Allow Me, Flap, Bye, Spirit Level, Lonely Hearts/Suspicious Minds (The Snag Project), Viking Shoppers (Igloo); Green In Blue, Little Red, Tiger Dancing, How I Look, Expression Lines, Seen of Angels, Second Signal, White Space, Dido & Aeneas, Finale, FPS, Frontline, In Broken Tendrils, Shot Flow, Melancholy Thoughts, A Moment of Give, Prime Origin, Ilé Ayé (Henri Oguike Dance Company). Theatre includes: Peter Pan, Be Near Me (NTS); Serenading Louie (Donmar Warehouse); A Delicate Balance, Waste (Almeida); Othello (West End); Future Proof (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh);Electra (The Gate Theatre); Faith Healer (Bristol Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); As You Like It, Bollywood Jane, Macbeth , How Many Miles to Basra? (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Kes, Season’s Greetings, (Liverpool Playhouse); Amadeus, The Little Fir Tree, Fen, Far Away, Macbeth (Sheffield Theatres); Of Mice and Men (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); A Streetcar Named Desire (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Zero Degrees and Drifting…, Could It Be Magic? (Unlimited Theatre) Opera includes: The Cunning Little Vixen, (National Theatre Brno); Il Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi, La Clemenza di Tito, Fantastic Mr Fox, Promised End, The Duenna, The Magic Flute, Katya Kabanova, Don Giovanni, Anna Bolena, Susannah, The Seraglio, Eugene Onegin (English Touring Opera); The Ring Cycle, The Magic Flute, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, Tosca, Hansel and Gretel (Longborough Festival Opera); Names of the Dead (Battersea Arts Centre) Musicals include: The Witches of Eastwick, All the Fun of the Fair, Aspects of Love (UK tours); Assassins (Sheffield Theatres);My Fair Lady (Singapore); City of Angels (Frankfurt)