Mark Baldwin

Mark Phillip Baldwin OBE is a contemporary dance choreographer. He was born in Fiji and raised and educated in New Zealand. He was the Artistic Director of Rambert dance company from 2002–2018.

Career Baldwin studied fine arts at the University of Auckland and trained with the New Zealand Dance Centre before joining the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He was also one of the founding members of the Limbs Dance Company.

Baldwin's first work for Rambert as Artistic Director was Constant Speed in 2005. Since then he has created Eternal Light and The Comedy of Change. In 2006 he choreographed The Wedding for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and collaborated with Amanda Eyles to restage Andrée Howard's 1939 work Lady into Fox.

As part of the 90th anniversary celebrations of Rambert, Baldwin took part in the Rambert Archive's oral history project.

Awards Baldwin has received numerous awards throughout his career, including:

Bonnie Bird Choreographic Award (1992) Time Out Award for Dance (1995) South Bank Show Award (2001) for The Bird Sings With Its Fingers French Grand Prix Award for Film (1996) for Echo Dance Artist Fellowship for Outstanding Contribution to Dance (2002)

He won the TMA Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance for Constant Speed and an Oliver Award for his restaging of Michael Clark's Swamp.

Baldwin was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire "for Services to Dance" in the 2015 Birthday Honours.