Paul Chantry

 
Paul Chantry has had a successful performance career working in UK ballet and contemporary companies, as well as musicals and operas in London’s West End. Paul is now Artistic Director and Choreographer of his own company, Chantry Dance Company, and works extensively outside the company as a co-choreographer with Rae Piper.

Born in: 

Grantham, UK

Based out of: 

London/Grantham, UK

Selected Choreographic Credits: Chinese Calligraphy, Music and Dance Concert (Sadler’s Wells, London); The Merry Widow (Royal Festival Hall, London); Tom’s Midnight Garden (The Bloomsbury, London); Horrible Histories (UK National Tour); The Last Days of Mankind (Bristol Old Vic Theatre Royal, Bristol); Anyone For Tea? (Lyric Hammersmith, London); The Magic Flute (Riverside Studios, London); La Traviata (UK National Tour); Ring Around The World (The Rose Theatre & The Unicorn Theatre, London); The Yellow Wallpaper (Village Underground, London); Lullaby For a Lost Soul (Village Underground, London); Songs of the Elder Sisters (Village Underground, London)

Selected Performance Credits: The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells, London); Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez (Sadler’s Wells, London and European Tour); Tales of Hoffman (English National Opera, London); One Touch of Venus (Sadler’s Wells, London and UK National Tour); Orlando (Opera de Lille, France); Giselle & The Canterbury Tales (UK and Ireland Tour); Rusalka (Grange Park Opera, Northington)

Awards/Honours: La Traviata (co-choreographer) nominated for Best Opera, The Off West End Awards 2012
 
Other Interesting Tidbits: Paul Chantry’s company, Chantry Dance Company, is currently working on a premiere of a mixed bill for October. Mr Chantry is choreographing three pieces for this mixed bill and will be dancing in the fourth piece, which will be choreographed by his partner, Rae Piper.