Freddie Opoku-Addaie is a British-born Ghanaian performer and educator and the recipient of many choreographic awards and commissions that has won him critical acclaim. After London Contemporary Dance School and California Institute for the Art, he became an apprentice for Company Wayne McGregor. His choreographies use disparate movement styles, folkloric themes and structured choreography and amongst many, he won renown for Silence Speaks Volumes, Bf, Mis-thread, Show Of Hands. He worked as a freelance performer with Candoco Dance Company, the late Rashpal Singh Bansal, Athina Vahlia, Clod Ensemble, Jorge Crecis and Hetain Patel amongst others, and was twice a finalist choreographer/performer in The Bloomberg Place Prize. He has been an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House – ROH2 (London), a recipient of the Robin Howard Commission, One Dance UK Trailblazer Fellowship and the founder, director and curator of ‘SystemsLAB’ working with multi-faceted, mid-career artists. Appointed in 2021 as Dance Umbrella’s new Artistic Director/CEO, Freddie is the first black artist to hold that post.
