Every performance is a world you enter, not a show you watch.
Andrew Skeels is a visionary choreographer and director celebrated for creating performances that transcend dance and become immersive worlds of emotion, imagery, and story. His work fuses dance, theatre, music, and circus into experiences that challenge, transport, and transform audiences long after the curtain falls.
Internationally acclaimed, Skeels has been commissioned by leading institutions including the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bavarian State Opera Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, National Theater Mannheim, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Cirque du Soleil, and Teatre ZinZanni. His creation Finding Now for Théâtre de Suresnes won the Grand Prix de la Critique in Paris before a sold-out run at the Opéra Bastille, cementing him as one of the most original voices in contemporary dance.
Since 2018, Skeels has brought his signature vision to Cirque du Soleil, shaping some of its most ambitious productions: acrobatic choreographer for Drawn to Life at Walt Disney World, movement designer for the touring spectacle Echo, writer/director/choreographer of the international campaign Brightest, and contributor to Joya in Mexico. These works expanded his choreographic language to a global scale, reaching millions of spectators.
In 2015, he founded Skeels Danse in Montréal, a company dedicated to bold, immersive creations. Its debut production Rose of Jericho (2017) toured over 30 cities worldwide, while Past Rooms (2023) was hailed as “a little gem of dance-theatre, polished with care” (JEU Magazine). With appearances at major festivals and venues—including WestWave Dance Festival San Francisco, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Danse Danse, Boston Moving Arts, Festival Quartiers Danses, and FIFA International Festival of Films on Art—Skeels Danse continues to captivate international audiences.
Skeels’ work is rooted in a multifaceted background as a classical and contemporary dancer, actor, and film editor. A former dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, he performed masterworks by Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Marco Goecke, Stijn Celis, Didy Veldman, and Stephan Thoss—an experience that continues to shape the rigor and depth of his creations.
Collaboration is at the heart of his process. He works with visionary artists—including Sussan Deyhim, Damian Siqueiros, Mindy L’Amour, Marija Djordjević, and David Di Giovanni—to push the boundaries of dance-theatre and reimagine what live performance can be.
