Hayley Adams (1983),  originally from Bristol, United Kingdom, has called Amsterdam her creative home for nearly 10 years. After starting a family in 2018, Hayley is a re-emerging independent dance maker. She creates contemporary dance works that educate, engage and challenge in (extra)ordinary ways.

 

Hayley was selected for One Dance UK's Dance Teacher Mentor Programme in 2014. She received a Post-Graduate Certificate at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London UK in 2008-09. She studied a BA (Honours) in English Literature and Dance from University of Chester, UK in 2005. 

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Choreographic work began with Fall/ Fail to Recover at Amsterdam Fringe Festival in 2017. The 30 minute solo explored issues around Body Focussed Repetitive Behaviours with modern dance, spoken word and sequins. Her new work My Body is Not My Own will draw on her experience of site-specific work with a strong visual. Hayley’s choregraphy uses game and ritual as a basis for concept and always has a theatrical twist.

 

Performance experience includes multiple works with Sanne Clifford & Co across The Netherlands and Northern Italy. Venues include De Brakke Grond, CC Amstel and Cafe Theater Festival in Utrecht. In the UK, Hayley worked with international choreographer Willi Dorner with 'Bodies in Urban Spaces', interdisciplinary Kompany Malakhi and The Movement Collective in Bristol. Venues include O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol Harbourside Festival and Bonnie Bird Theater, London. 

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In Amsterdam, teaching work has brought Hayley to The British School of Amsterdam, 5 o’clock class at the Theaterschool, and Grey Vibes. Teaching now focuses on teenagers and adults. Highlights from Hayley’s vast experience in the UK include teaching everybody aged 2 - 101 years old, dance with puppets, in unusual spaces like Libraries and shopping centres, and in Conservatoires, Universities and Schools around the SouthWest and United Kingdom.