Biography

Thomas graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with a BA (Hons) degree.  In 2001, Thomas established his company Smallpetitklein and has since won many awards and commissions for his work including the prestigious Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award and the Robin Howard Foundation Commission.  He has also been short-listed for the Peter Darrell award in 2003 and The Place Prize in both 2006 & 2008.   Thomas was Choreographer in Residence at The Space, Dundee throughout 2008 and with Smallpetitklein he is currently Artist in Residence at The Byre Theatre, St Andrews.  Smallpetitklein are now Dance Company in Residence at On at Fife theatres across Fife. He took part in ROH2’s DanceLines 2009 project where he was mentored for two weeks by The Royal Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and he presented the work he created during DanceLines at The Royal Opera House FIRSTS Programme in November 2010.  He was awarded funding from Creative Scotland to develop new work in 2011.  He was invited to present his latest work ‘Falling Man’ at the Cunningham Studios in New York City in 2011.   His work received five star reviews in the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was featured on BBC2’s The Culture Show.

He is a faculty member at Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and previously at the Urdang Academy, London.  Thomas has also taught extensively for Royal Academy of Dance, The Place, and Greenwich Dance Agency.  Thomas was joint Artistic Director of Combination Dance Company from 2001 to 2007. 

About me

Birthday: 2nd June

School: London Contemporary Dance School

Here are a few of my favourite things....

Possession: My Mini Cooper, iMac, MacBook Pro & iPhone!

Book: All the Harry Potter books

Film: Amelie

Country: Scotland

City: London, New York and Las Vegas!

Superhero: Spider-Man

Bestest thing ever: My beautiful dog Molly!