Mark Baldwin OBE

Awards

2018 De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement at the National Dance Awards

2016 OBE for services to dance. 

2012 Honorary Amber Faun for outstanding achievement in choreographic art, and the development of dance in the UK by Sergei Diaghilev International Association for the Promotion of Choreographic Art.

2002 Dance Artist Fellowship for Outstanding Contribution to Dance

2001 Southbank Show Award for The Bird Sings With its Fingers

1996 French Grand Prix Award for Film for ‘Echo’ a collaboration with visual artist Anish Kapoor and composer Brian Ellas

1995 Time Out Award for Dance

1992 Bonnie Bird Choreographic Award

Mark Baldwin was born in Lautoka, Fiji, in the South Pacific, and later raised and educated in New Zealand. There he pursued a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, while studying both classical and contemporary dance.

Mark was Artistic Director of Rambert for 15 years.

“Inala - Peacock Theatre
Mark Baldwin’s Zulu ballet enchants all over again”
— ★★★★ - The Telegraph
“Both as a choreographer, and as an inspiring curator of others’ work, his tenacity has kept the company always growing. His strong leadership through the many tough years of getting Rambert’s fantastic new home built has been unflagging.”
— Howard Panter for The Stage
“Baldwin’s neoclassical choreography complements the music, but doesn’t rush to inhabit its billowing folds and baroque curlicues as Mark Morris’ or Richard Alston’s might have done... Baldwin varies his compositions skilfully, and groupings ebb, swell and flow.”
— ★★★ The Guardian

Gallery

2019

Production

Company
Infra The Royal Albert Hall

2018

Production

Company
(G)rave (B)old Festival (Gotterdamerung)
Sakura & Inala Ministry Of Sound
Inala (Revival) Peacock Theatre

2017

Production

Company
Appalachian Spring Barbican (London)
Perpetual Motion (Exhibition) The Lowry (Salford), Curated by Mark Baldwin, Michael Howells and the Lowry

2016

Production

Company
The Creation Rambert (London)

2015

Production

Company
Not A Cloud In The Sky Saarlandisches Ballett (Germany)
Dark Arteries Rambert (London), Designed by Mark Baldwin & Stevie Stewart

2014

Production

Company
The Strange Charm Of Mother Nature Rambert (London)