Matthew Bourne has been Artistic Director & Choreographer of Adventures in Motion Pictures since 1987. He is also a director of the Spitfire Trust, which provides financial support to young dancers and choreographers, and is an honorary fellow of the Laban Institute, where he received his training. Matthew was awarded an OBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours List.

Works choreographed for Adventures in Motion Pictures include: Overlap Lovers, Spitfire, Buck & Wing, The Infernal Gallop, Town & Country, Deadly Serious, The Percys of Fitzrovia, Nutcracker (Sadler’s Wells), Highland Fling (Sadler’s Wells & Donmar), Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells, Piccadilly Theatre, Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, Neil Simon Theatre in New York, UK tour and Royal Variety Show at the Dominion Theatre), Cinderella (Piccadilly Theatre & Los Angeles), The Car Man (Old Vic, UK tour and US tour).

Other choreography includes: As You Like It (RSC); Children of Eden (Prince Edward Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aix en Provence Festival, ENO), The Tempest (National Youth Theatre), Show Boat (Sweden), Peer Gynt (Barbican & tour), Watch With Mother (NYT Dance Company), Boutique (Images of Dance), Watch Your Step (Irving Berlin Gala), Oliver! (London Palladium & UK tour), My Fair Lady (Royal National Theatre & Drury Lane).

TV and Film includes: Late Flowering Lust (BBC starring Nigel Hawthorne), Drip (BBC Dance for the Camera), Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood (BBC starring Julie Walters & Danny De Vito), Swan Lake (BBC TV). Matthew was the subject of a South Bank Show profile in 1997.

Future plans include: documentary series for Channel Four about Men in Dance; a new production of South Pacific for the Royal National Theatre; Bourne to Dance, a stage version of Tim Burton’s film Edward Scissorhands; new stage work for Disney based on the animated classic The Little Mermaid, films of The Car Man, Cinderella and Highland Fling, and stage revivals of Nutcracker and Highland Fling.

Faber & Faber have recently published “Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Motion Pictures”.

Awards too numerous to list in full include: over 25 awards for Swan Lake including Olivier Award (1996) Time Out Award (1996), South Bank Show Award (1996) Manchester Evening News Award (1996), Gay Times & Pink Paper Readers Awards (1996), LA Critics Circle Award (1997), New York Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award (1999), Astaire Award (1999) and two Tony Awards (1999) for Best Direction and Best Choreography. In 1999 the Los Angeles production of Cinderella won the LA Critics Circle Award and most recently Matthew won the 2000 Evening Standard Drama Award and the 2000 Manchester Evening News Award for The Car Man.