Agudo Dance Company
Agudo Dance Company was founded by Artistic Director Jose Agudo, who brings over 30 years of experience in the dance sector. The company creates ambitious, evocative, and thought-provoking dance productions for the international stage.
Our vision is to take audiences on a journey through the senses. We invite spectators and participants alike to be moved in every dimension—physically, emotionally, and intellectually. Through choreography and performance, we connect people to the cathartic power of dance, where creativity, wellbeing, and embodied expression are at the core of being alive.
The company’s inaugural production, Silk Road, was inspired by the people, dances, and rituals along the ancient nomadic routes stretching from China to the Iberian Peninsula. Touring with live music since 2017, it has received critical acclaim. In 2019, the company created and performed the opening ceremony for the Davis Cup tennis championships in Madrid, broadcast worldwide.
In 2021, the company premiered a striking new production of Carmen, inspired by Prosper Mérimée’s classic novella and performed by an exceptional cast of seven dancers.
Jose has also been touring internationally with his solo Hero since 2021. His next full-length solo creation, QUIXOTE: In Your Mind, will premiere in 2026/27. A newly re-staged version of Silk Road, featuring recorded music, is available for booking.
In addition to the company’s productions, Jose Agudo regularly creates commissioned works for institutions worldwide and teaches internationally as an integral part of Agudo Dance Company’s artistic and educational projects.
Jose Agudo
Jose started his career in Andalusia where he began performing as a Flamenco dancer. Slowly the world of contemporary dance became more visible as he worked throughout Europe performing with Metros, Charleroi/Danses, Ballet de Marseille, T.R.A.S.H, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and Akram Khan Company.
As assistant choreographer and rehearsal director. Jose has worked on several creations for Akram Khan Company from 2010 to 2017. Including the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony.
In 2010, Jose started to study Kathak under Akram’s guidance. Finding many parallels between this training and his early studies of Flamenco, Jose reconnected with his roots and began to explore traditional forms in a contemporary context. As a result, he created Agudo Dance Company in 2017. Creating Silk Road, which has toured in 6 countries to date, Carmen that tour in UK and France and Hero that it’s touring world wise.
Jose’s independent choreographic commissions include Phoenix Dance Theatre, Norrdans, ZfinMalta National Dance Company, Cape Dance Company, ACE Dance and Music, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, English National Ballet School, BODHI Project SEAD, The Place, London Studio Centre, Area Jeune Ballet, Festival International de Musica y Danza de Granada, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, MAP University of Chichester and collaborations with London Mozart Players and Subrang Arts.
Since 2019 Jose has embarked in a new adventure diving into the world of the musical theatre, publicity and commercial. First as an Associate Choreographer for Cabaret at the Kit Kat club. Then choreographing the flamenco scene and performing as the character of Rico at Strictly Ballroom the musical by Baz Luhrmann in the UK and in Denmark.
Jose choreographed and performed at the Opening Ceremony of the Davis Cup 2019 by Rakuten in Madrid. And he was part of the Madrid Tourism Publicity Campaign during 2024.
His last collaboration during 2024 was as Assistance Director and Movement Director in the immersive physical theatre experience ‘Journey of a Refugee’. Directed by Sue Buckmaster and produce by Theatre Rites and Agudo Dance Company.
He is a guest choreographer, teacher and lecturer in many of the leading dance institutions around the world. Bringing Indian and flamenco art into a contemporary context. Jose is a Yoga Teacher by Yoga Alliances and he hold a Distinction Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Dance by Kent University.
He is listed in the new edition of 50 Contemporary Choreographers, an international publication by Routledge.
From 2025 Jose will be creating a new solo base in the story of ‘Don Quixote’
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