Aaron Jeffrey

Aaron is a freelance dancer, choreographer, physical performer and Fine Artist based in Scotland. He graduated from the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance (SSCD) The Space in 2010 and performed with the graduate company throughout the UK.

Since then he has received the developing artist bursary award from Dancebase, Scotland’s national centre for dance. He has also performed and toured on various productions throughout the U.K. and Europe. Aaron has participated in numerous artistic development residencies and has been awarded various scholarships and bursaries evolving his practice. He is employed by Scottish Dance Theatre, Dancebase Edinburgh and Citymoves Aberdeen as a freelance Educational facilitator. Before his dance training he gained his BA(hons) in Fine Art through Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, this has fed his approach to creating dance, sculpted his choreographic aesthetic and shaped his physical practice.

Interested in cross collaborative approaches that fuse different disciplines, Aaron created Flesh Collective, a multi-disciplinary exploration towards the perceptions of performance. Flesh Collective merges various artistic endeavors as a Hive of Interdisciplinary Production (HIP) exploring cross collaborative approaches which fuse different art forms in order to create and perform new work. Aaron has choreographed for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dance Live festival, staged work at the Space including choreographing on the BA(hons) students in 2014. He also creates dance for film.

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