Matt Brady founded The Covent Garden Dance Company in early 2006, bringing on board the experienced and creative talents of Christine Sundt as company co-director to help ensure cultural and artistic development within the company.

Matthew Mitchell was born in Brighton, England in 1971. After attending Lancing College he went up to Cambridge University to read English and Education.

Matthew is currently producing the musical La Cage Aux Folles at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway – the production has won 3 Tony Awards (Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical and Best Director) as well as winning 3 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards and the Drama League Award for Best Musical Revival.

Christine was born in Oslo, Norway in 1977. She trained in the UK first in the Checcetti style and then continued her professional dance training at the Lower and Upper Schools of the Royal Ballet School. Here she choreographed a number of works including: Babble, Angst and Tarot winning the Sir Kenneth Macmillan Choreographic Prize whilst still at the school. Christine has performed with the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

(billed as ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER for any future repertoire and tour presentations)

David’s lighting designs have been seen in theatre, ballet, opera, music events and corporate presentations.

Theatre in London includes: The Female Odd Couple, Mademoiselle Colombe, The Dice House, Nicholas Nickleby, The Threepenny Opera, Murder In The Cathedral and recently The Anniversary.

Martin Ward was born in Cambridge in 1970. He started his musical life playing the trumpet and piano, before studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Buxton Orr and Robert Saxton, also studying orchestration with Francis Shaw and electronic music with Javier Alvarez.  He gained his GGSM graduate qualification with a 2:1. After college he worked in the music departments of both the Royal Opera House and the BBC, gaining experience on all practical levels of the music business. During this time Martin continued to compose, reaching the final of the IBM International Composition Prize with the film ‘Offending Angels’ in 2000. Other Television and film credits include: War Stories (Discovery Channel 2002), The Show (The Lab 1999) and Stand Up Britain (Granada 2002)

A classic story of great compassion, delicacy and depth needs a voice to match.  As one of the most iconic and highly regarded English actors Jeremy Irons never fails to impress. We are extraordinarily honoured to have him as part of our artistic team.

Long before the Bolshoi or the Kirov had toured in the West, British ballet had its own Soviet ballerina. Violetta Prokhorova was a soloist at the Bolshoi when in 1945 she met British architect Harold Elvin, married him, and was allowed to leave Moscow with him for a new life in London.  Ninette de Valois invited her to join the Sadler's Wells Ballet, and she made her début on the second night of the company's first Covent Garden season, in the Bluebird pas de deux in Sleeping Beauty. By the next season she had started to use her married name, and over the next ten years she became one of the company's most popular ballerinas and in many people's opinion, second only to Fonteyn.