Sharon Watson is CEO and Principal of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD). Trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance, she was one of the first female Principal Dancers invited to join the all-male award winning Phoenix Dance Theatre (formerly Phoenix Dance Company) and later its longest-standing Artistic Director. She has choreographed Fast Lane, Melt, Never 2 Still, Repetition of Change, TearFall and Windrush: Movement of the People. Awarded First English Woman’s Award for Arts and Culture (2018), Sharon is a trustee of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, The Place, Leeds Playhouse, and an artistic advisor for Central School of Ballet and current Chair of Leeds 2023.
