Jonathan Goddard by Rick Guest

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

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.

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.

Credits as Movement Director: King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Strange Interlude, Man and Superman, Beaux Stratagem, As You Like It, Sunset at the Villa Thalia (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout Theatre Broadway); Timon of Athens, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company). Movement Associate: Matilda (Netflix); Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park); West Side Story, A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve). Dance Associate: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End).

Choreographer credits include While You Are Here with director Lily McLeish and Company Chameleon’s Pictures We Make (Linbury Theatre).

Critics’ Circle National Dance Award
(2020)
Outstanding Male Performance (Modern)

Critics’ Circle National Dance Award
(2014)
Best Male Dancer

Critics’ Circle National Dance Award
(2014)
Outstanding Male Performance (Modern)

South Bank Show Sky Arts Award 
(2013)

Critics’ Circle National Dance Award
(2012)
Best Male Dancer Nomination

Critics’ Circle National Dance Award
(2011)
Best Male Dancer Nomination

Critics’ Circle National Dance Award
(2008)
Best Male Dancer

Olivier Award
(2008)
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Nomination

South Bank Show / Times Newspaper
Breakthrough Award
(2007)
Nomination