About

The Goddard | Nixon Project was founded in 2009 as a choreographic collaboration between Jonathan Goddard and Gemma Nixon.

Jonathan Goddard is a professional dance artist, movement director and choreographer who has worked for most major British dance companies.

Jonathan was nominated for Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award in 2007, Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2008, Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer 2011 and 2012. He has won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Male Dancer twice, in 2008 and 2014, also winning Outstanding Male Performance (modern) in 2014 and 2020.

He is a founder member of New Movement Collective, and has been a tutor at the Architectural Association in London. His most recent work includes Phaedra and Minotaur directed by Deborah Warner and choreographed by Kim Brandstrup, and The Mother a full evening duet with Natalia Osipova choreographed by Arthur Pita.

Over a 20-year career, Gemma Nixon has danced with some of Britain’s foremost companies including The Royal Ballet, Rambert, Company Chameleon, Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Russell Maliphant Dance Company, HeadSpace Dance and Scottish Dance Theatre. She has worked with choreographers including Christopher Bruce, Johan Inger, Rui Horta, Javier De Frutos, Siobhan Davies, Didi Veldman and Aletta Collins amongst many others.

Her work extends to mentorship, coaching, choreography, rehearsal direction and teaching.

Gemma co-founded New Movement Collective, co-creatingacclaimed works including “Please Be Seated”, “Nest” and “Casting Traces”- commissioning by Southbank Centre London, Stone Nest London & Dance East.

Reviews

In the first scene, the pair slip through and around each other’s limbs, their personal spaces meshing but not merging. In the second, they bed down, shuffling blearily off into their own introspective dreams. In the third, they are wilder, more driven, tumbling like animals, and in the final emotive section, they lean and sway, torsos as supple as if stirred by sighs.

Goddard and Nixon bring a professional finesse to both piece and performance. In fifteen captivating minutes what you get is far more than what you see.”