Team

Photo: Ravi Deepres

Odette Hughes joined Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in June 1997 following a dance and technology residency with Wayne McGregor in Berlin, becoming the company’s Rehearsal Director in 2000.Odette danced for the company for a decade before retiring from stage and is now responsible for the every day artistic supervision of McGregor’s Company, overseeing all performances, and directing all rehearsals. Odette was First Assistant Choreographer to McGregor on the fourth Harry Potter Film, The Goblet of Fire (2004) and in 2006 she was Movement Coach on the fifth Harry Potter film Order of the Phoenix. She has acted as Rehearsal Director on Michel Ocelot’s Musical, Kirikou, which McGregor Directed, The Royal Ballet’s Engram, and for The English National Opera’s production of Salome, both choreographed by McGregor. She assisted McGregor on his production of Dido and Aeneas at La Scala, Milan in June 2006. Odette has restaged numerous McGregor Ballets including Eden|Eden onto the San Francisco Ballet (2006) in which she returned in 2008 to rehearse Eden|Eden for the 75th anniversary Gala of the San Francisco Ballet, Genus onto the Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and the multi award winning Chroma onto the National Ballet of Canada (2010) and at the Bolshoi Ballet (2011). She has also restaged McGregor’s Contemporary pieces for education establishments, which includes Phase Space onto The Edge, (LCDS performance group) and Polar Sequence onto the Apprenticeship programme, D.A.N.C.E, based at the Palucca Schule Dresden. She has taught numerous workshops and Master Classes at The Laban Trinity College and The Northern School of Contemporary Dance as well as many others. She has acted as external examinator for the London School of Contemporary Dance and has been involved in numerous education projects for all age and abilities.

She was appointed Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Associate Director in January 2007.