Henrietta trained at the Royal Ballet Upper School, Rambert School and Transitions Dance Company at Laban. She gained an MA choreography in 2002 that focused on Screen Dance at Middlesex University and has since been producing and researching dance for theatre, installation and screen throughout her dancing career.
As a dancer/performer she worked for 14 years predominantly with Rosemary Lee Projects, Ricochet Dance Productions (including productions by Fin Walker and Lucy Guerrin) Angela Woodhouse, Yolande Snaith Theatredance and in her early career for Russell Maliphant and Diversions Dance Company.
credits include:
2010 - Place Prize commission - Hinterview (working title) a solo with sound and visual design by Reassemble (John Say and Sheena Vallely)
2008 - 10 - ongoing performance research under the collective banner people Working Projects - includes solos Safe/Unsafe, The Box Office Woman, Heni in the shop, and group works, Work Work Work and the People Working Tour. residencies through Choreoroam, Springdance Holland, Dance4, Colchester Arts Centre, Opera Estate Festival Bassano - Italy
2009/10 - Dynamo Door Dance - in collaboration with Slovenian artists Polonca Lovsin. site specific work dealing with dynamo technology and volunteer participants. Wysing Arts and Provod Lubjianna
2009 - Forest - group work on graduating student at NSCD
2007-8 - The Odd Honesty Code - DKHP group work commission touring uk, France, Italy
2007/8 - Taliesin - 3 screen video installation filmed and edited by Henrietta for solo performance by singer/musician Sianed Jones - touring uk , internationally
2007 - Lessons in Moving and Thinking - group work on graduating students at Laban
2006 - Man or Fish - Place Prize commission
2005/6 - Waiting for bacon - screendance video with Peter Anderson
2005/6 - The Alien - a theatrepiece with visual artists Matti Braun - the Showroom, Laban, If I cant Dance(Holland)Project Dublin, and Bonn
2005 - Wintergarden - movement direction/collaboration with artist Daria Martin, premiered at De La Warr Pavilion and presented at Tate Britain for 2006 Triennial
2004 - Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon an art film with Daria Martin involving integration of dancersand athletes - premiered Tate Modern 2005 and shown at Serpentine Gallery 2006.
2004 - A Cross and then Across - Place Prize commission with Rachel Lopez de la Nieta
In 2002 she showed her first full length evening of work at The Place Theatre including a duet with Rachel Lopez de las Nieta, On the Road to… and a collaboration with musician Sianed Jones, In the Light of Lunar Sea.
Henrietta Hale