Photographer Camilla Greenwell
Charlotte Edmonds is a choreographer and filmmaker whose work fuses classical technique with a cinematic, emotionally driven approach to contemporary dance and film. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and Rambert School, and holds a Master’s in Choreography from Central School of Ballet.
Breaking ground early in her career, Charlotte became The Royal Ballet’s Inaugural Young Choreographer. Since then, her work has been characterised by a commitment to exploring complex social and emotional perspectives across stage and screen. She has created classical and contemporary works internationally for leading institutions including The Royal Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballett, Dutch National Ballet, Northern Ballet, Opera Holland Park, Norwegian National Ballet Ung, Studio Wayne McGregor and Yorke Dance Project, alongside extensive work with major training institutions such as The Place, Rambert Dance Company, Dance Arts Faculty, Rambert School, The Royal Ballet School, Dance East and Birmingham Hippodrome.
Alongside her stage practice, Charlotte works as a director and movement director across film, music, and broadcast, collaborating with artists such as Jehnny Beth, Gretel, Lola Young, and Duran Duran, and with platforms including BBC Arts and Nowness. Her interdisciplinary approach has also led to collaborations with cultural institutions such as Sotheby’s, Gazelli Art House, and Soho House, as well as global brands including Nike x Spotify, Dove, The Beaumont, Budweiser, Burberry, and Belstaff.
Charlotte is a Clore Fellow (2019), part of a distinguished leadership development programme for an exceptional cohort of cultural sector leaders.
CV
Choreographic work:
Commercial
Movement Direction for Tena Rethink Bladder Leaks - Omnicom Productions, 2026
Choreography for The Beaumont - Production Company MDRNLove, 2026
Choreography for Nike x Spotify - Production Company Uncommon Creative Studio, 2025
Movement Direction for Dove - Production Company Prettybird, 2025
Choreography for Budweiser - Production Company Park Pictures, 2022
Choreography for Gazelli Art House NFT Art Dubai, 2022
Movement Direction for Nike Underwear - Production Company OffBeat London, 2022
Choreography for Brendan Dawes NFT Sotheby’s, 2021
Casting Support and Audition Facilitation for La Horde x Burberry - Production Company Riff Raff, 2021
Movement Direction for Belstaff , 2021
IV FILM, egg trading film by Matthew Donaldson, 2020
Choreography for DEUX McFaul Day, 2018
Music Video
Movement Direction for Lola Young’s Messy performance on The Graham Norton Show, 2025
Choreography for Gretel Far Out, 2024
Choreography for Jehnny Beth Flower, 2021
Short Film
Choreography and Direction for Ladette London Contemporary Dance School (The Place), 2026
Choreography for Case237 Director Isher Sahota, 2025
Creative Producer and Director for Cameo Series Two Nowness, 2025
Creative Producer and Director for Cameo Series One Nowness, 2023
Choreography and Direction for Goldfish Nowness, 2022
Choreography and Direction for Northern Ballet I AM MERL-LIN, 2021
Choreography and Direction for TEN MILLION TONNES
Choreography for Winged Bull in the Elephants Case BBC Arts and Studio Wayne McGregor, 2018
Executive Producer and Choreography for Sink or Swim The Royal Ballet, 2017
Choreography and Direction for The Royal Ballet Deloitte Ignite Festival, 2014
Choreography and Co-Director The Indifferent Beak, Deloitte Ignite Festival, 2014
Stage Performance
Ladette BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance with Foundation Trinity Laban, London, 2026
Falsehood Trinity Laban Centre for Advanced Training (CAT), London, 2026
Rambert Dance Company and Birmingham Hippodrome Peaky Blinders Curtain Raiser, Birmingham, 2025
Lost Pariadise Durran Durran x Lost City Performance, London, 2025
Wool Over Their Eyes Dance Arts Faculty, Rome, 2024
Nest Dance Arts Faculty, Rome, 2023
Generation Goldfish Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich, 2021
Jigsaw Central School of Ballet 2 Year End of Year Performance, London, 2021
Grit Dutch National Ballet Junior, Netherlands, 2020
Left from Write Norwegian National Ballet Ung, Oslo and London, 2019
Rambert School 2 Year End of Year Performance, London, 2019
Ballet Cymru, Wales and London, 2019
Birmingham Royal Ballet School End of Year Performance, Birmingham, 2019
jojo The Royal Ballet The Linbury Theatre, 2018 and Studio Wayne Mcgregor The Grange Festival, 2019
Piggy in the Middle The Royal Ballet Clore Studio Theatre, London, 2018
Iris Opera Holland Park, London, 2017
Fuse Dutch National Ballet Junior, Netherlands, 2016
Commissioned Choreographer The Royal Academy of Dance International Ballet Competition, London, 2016
META Wayne McGregor 10 Year Anniversary The Royal Ballet Clore Studio Theatre, London, 2016
Selfridges Everybody Campaign, London, 2016
MOVING LINES made in collaboration with Artist Hugo Dalton, Clore Studio Theatre, London, 2018
Choreographer for English National Ballet’s Emerging Young Dancer Competition, Hippodrome, London. Isabella Brouwers (2016) and Constance Vowles (2018)
Self York Dance Project, London, 2016
No Strings Attached Yorke Dance Project, Lilian Baylis, London, 2013
Residences
Assistant Choreographer to Director of Rambert Dance Company, Benoit Swan Puffer for Ballo Opera Roma, 2023
Inaugural Young Choreographer The Royal Ballet, 2015 - 2018
Awards and Fellowships
The Arts Foundation Awards, 2025
Clore Leadership Fellowship ‘19 Cultural Sector Leaders, 2023
Center for Ballet and the Arts Dance (NYU), NY 2017
Northern Ballet Tell Tale Steps Choreographic Lab, 2016
Cohan Collective, York Dance Project, 2015 and 2016
Guest Speaker
Soho House Curator and Host of Film Screening Dean St, London, 2023 and 2025
MIISTA Panellist, London, 2025
Royal Academy of Dance Patron’s Evening, London, 2023
Visible Women Murray Edwards College Cambridge University, Cambridge, 2021
Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich, 2021
Nyetimber Made Glorious Campaign, 2019
Guildhall with Director and Music Director of The Royal Ballet, London, 2018
Royal Opera House World Ballet Day, live rehearsal with Joseph Sissen’s and Interview, 2018
BBC News and BBC Radio London, 2017
Royal Opera House World Ballet Day, live rehearsal of The Royal Academy of Dance, Genee International Ballet Competition, 2015
Birmingham Royal Ballet Choreographic Competition Judge 2021
British Dyslexia Association Dyslexia Creates, V&A Museum, 2019
The Royal Opera House, Live at Lunch, 2019
Summer Schools and Guest Teaching
Trinity Laban, 2026
Dance East CAT Ballet Tutor, 2025 onwards
English National Ballet Youth Co and Youth-Connect, 2025 onwards
Central School of Ballet Summer Intensive, 2026
Rambert Company Company Class, 2025
YouthCo Summer Intensive English National Ballet, 2025
Rambert Company Pro Class 2024- 2026
Royal Ballet School Summer Intensive, continuious
Rambert School Fresh Friday’s, 2024-2025
London Vocational Dance School Creative Enrichment Workshop, 2024-2026
Rambert School x Move Beyond Words Neurodiversity in the Studio Research, 2023
Royal Ballet School Summer Intensive, 2022
DanceXChange Choreographer and Ballet Classes, 2021
Dance East CAT Ballet Tutor, 2019
Dutch National Ballet International Summer School, 2019
Guest Choreographer Cymru International Summer School, 2018
Guest Choreographer The Royal Ballet Upper School Summer School, 2017
The Royal Opera House Chance to Dance, 2016
Royal Ballet School Contemporary Class, 2015
Awards and Features
Featured in THE AMAZING DYSLEXICS’ book, 2020
Gold Prize Telly Awards, Dance Film, Goldfish, 2023
Trustee
York Theatre Royal, 2026-onwards
Work Experience / Rehearsal Observations
The Royal Ballet, Crystal Pite, 2017
Netherlands Dans Theatre, Sharon Eyal, 2016
Paris Opera Ballet, Wayne McGregor, 2016
What exactly drives someone to walk this difficult path of becoming an artist
Charlotte is unforgettable. In a crowd, she doesn't seek the spotlight; in social settings she's warm and easy in conversation, but always carries a touch of mystery. That's probably because behind her elegant face is a penetrating gaze, and behind her composure, her mind is running at high speed. Her curiosity and creativity give her both practicality and a broad vision.
Charlotte studied ballet from a young age, and about ten years ago, right after graduating from dance school, she was invited to join the Royal Opera House as a resident choreographer for three years. With this solid artistic foundation, Charlotte went on to develop a wide range of independent choreographic work and cross-disciplinary collaborations — beyond live performance, also short films, music videos, interviews, teaching, and brand collaborations. In short, the invitations never stop coming.
Her next work is highly conceptual, centred on Britain's 1990s "ladette" culture and the freedom and constraints of female identity in today's chaotic generation. I've seen footage of her dancing/choreographing — technically demanding, unpredictable, raw and wild, charged with sexual tension. I could feel that her style is the best language for exploring this concept. What she envisions can expand humanity's understanding of the world — and this understanding isn't built through words or logic, but through the creation of space and the reach of the body, generating a shared perception born from the resonance between people.
Perhaps artists — especially leaders among them — never really had a choice. We're like people who've been chosen, who see a unique vision of the world's unrealised beauty — fragile and precious, yet possessed of an irresistible force, compelling us to forsake the easy path and pursue the hard one with burning devotion. Charlotte is one such chosen artist-leader.