Early Stage Commission

George Williams is a dance artist, born and raised in the North East who first discovered his passion for dance at school in Middlesbrough. 

George is an Associate Artist with TIN Arts and has toured nationally with the company performing in both indoor and outdoor dance works (Shake the Tree, 2012; Parked, 2015; Caty Wompus, 2017). 

In 2015 George was a member of the National Youth Dance Company creating and touring ‘In-nocentes’ by Michael Keegan-Dolan as part of a 40-strong ensemble of young dancers drawn from across England. 

In 2016 George created his first solo work ‘WIRED’ which toured extensively 2016-2017 and for which he was chosen as a finalist at the National Lottery Awards 2017.  

In 2018 George was a founding member and dance artist in the Talent Hub, an innovative dance professional training programme for artists with a learning disability or who are autistic and as part of the Talent Hub featured in HELM by Theo Clinkard which toured nationally in 2019-2020. 

I feel proud and can’t wait to start creating my new piece. I am looking forward to playing with lots of ideas, to push myself further and develop my work. It will be fun to be able to share it with an audience.