Impact Dance Company was founded in 1995 by its current artistic director and one of its choreographers, Hakeem Onibudo.
Impact Dance is a Hip-Hop Theatre Company/Street Dance Organisation and Educational Facilitator.We work with both professional dancers and youth dancers to; fuse street and contemporary movement with physical theatre; and produce a story through narrative dance. Hakeem sees this narrative work as a means of communicating idea's and the reality.
We run a variety of workshops and masterclasses, open classes, performances, aswell as summer time dance holidays.
Impact work with large institutions including Sadler's Wells, East London Dance, The Royal Ballet, Greenwich Dance agency, and the BBC - amongst others - to produce a wide range of both youth and professional projects.
Hakeem Onibudo-Artistic Director/Founder/Choreographer
Hakeem Onibudo is a choreographer/director and professional host who began teaching dance in 1995, forming the company Impact Dance. His work has enabled him to work with children, young people, amateurs, semi-professionals and professionals in projects varying from school workshops, TV performances and theatre productions. These include work with BBC TV, Nickelodeon, CH4 (Endemol), ITV, Cosmopolitan Show, Duke of Edinburgh Awards, Sadler's Wells and Peacock Theatre. He is the creator of the unique street-style dance class XPRESS YO'SELF, which has been running at Danceworks for 13 years. Hakeem has just choreographed the Pet Shop Boy's "Fundamental" World tour for 2006/07. He also worked alongside the Asian Dub Foundation, director Dave Freeman and designer Es Devlin on the English National Opera's Channel 4 commissioned "Gaddafi The Living Myth" which ran at The Coliseum, St Martin's Lane in September 2006. Hakeem is currently developing Hip Hop duets including "Circular Disorientation" which premiered at Breakin' Convention 2007 at Sadler's Wells, and is also helping and supporting companies to produce high quality Hip-Hop Theatre work, with a new professional platform called TWO'S A COMPANY.
Louise Banks-Education Officer
Karlene Pinnock-Project Manager
Emma Mushens- Rehearsal Director/Choreographer
Kara Boustead-Technical Manager
Dan Gale- Composer/Music Producer
Emma Wee-Designer
Rose Wooderson-Designer
