Ben Warbis

Ben is a contemporary dancer who has spent the most of part of his career as part of Michael Clark Company, with whom he has performed extensively across Europe, Australia, and America, as well as at London’s Barbican (2009-2020). For stage, Ben has also worked with choreographers including Robert Cohan, Hubert Essakow, and Yolande Yorke-Edgell, as well as with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Lea Anderson, and Alex Reynolds within the realms of film. Ben has also worked with fashion photographers Nick Knight, Jake Walters, Cecilie Harris, Sarah Brimley, Philip Riches and Elliot Kennedy. In 2017, as a solo performer, Ben collaborated with artist Wolfgang Tillmans in an immersive residency at Tate Modern. In 2019, he performed on the Barbican stage for the Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night Of 100 Solos, staged by Daniel Squire. He was also recently employed to dance in a new screen adaptation of Kenneth MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles which is due for screening in 2023.

Ben graduated from London Studio Centre in 2009 with a BA Hons in Theatre Dance, achieved a Level 6 Diploma in Dance Teaching with bbodance (formerly the BBO) in 2016, and completed an MA in Dance Technique Pedagogy at Middlesex University in 2022. Ben arrives at Ballet Central after having taught on the Contemporary Technique faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire since 2018 (he is now a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy) and he continues his role as a lead tutor on bbodance’s teaching qualifications programme.

Ben is the Ballet Central Lead, working with the third year students as they join the Ballet Central company. He oversees the Ballet Central tour and also teaches contemporary to the third year students.