New Adventures

Etta Murfitt

Etta trained at London Contemporary Dance School and is Associate Director for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and is a founder member of the Company and leads the Educational arm, Re:Bourne. She also created roles for his Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP) between 1991 and 2002 and became Assistant Artistic Director in 1995.

Stage Credits as associate director and performer for AMP / New Adventures include: Nutcracker! 20th Anniversary UK tour; Cinderella (Sadlers Wells 2010 & original London and LA productions); Dorian Gray; Edward Scissorhands, Highland fling, Nutcracker! The Car Man & original production of Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells, West End, Los Angeles, & Broadway; Highland Fling, The Infernal Galop, The Percy’s of Fitzrovia, Deadly Serious and Town & Country; also Clara in the original production of Nutcracker! (Opera North and Sadler’s Wells).
Etta is also founder member and dancer with Images Dance Theatre; Scottish

Dance Theatre; Arc Dance Company; and Aletta Collins Dance Company.
TV & FILM: Nutcracker! (BBC/NVC); The Car Man (Channel 4); Cinderella (South Bank Show, ITV)); Swan Lake (BBC); Late Flowering Lust (BBC); Roald Dahl’s Red Riding Hood (BBC); Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre (BBC); and Storm (Aletta Collins / BBC) Swan Lake 3D film (Sky Arts)

CHOREOGRAPHY: Le nozze di Figaro (Holland Park Opera); The Way of the World (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Infernal Galop for Images of Dance and Sarasota Ballet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Albery Theatre, with Dawn French. Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Kneehigh Theatre ( Leicester Curve and Gielgud Theatre) ,Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (Chichester festival and Haymarket theatre), Wild bride and Midnights Pumpkin ,Kneehigh Theatre (Asylum Tent Cornwall) Travesties (Birmingham Rep) Sleeping Beauty (Birmingham Rep)

Etta teaches throughout the UK and abroad for dance companies and dance institutions, as well as being a freelance faculty member of the London Contemporary Dance School and Young Place.