Dam Van Huynh has received the Artistic Innovation in Dance Award 2026 as part of One Dance UK Awards. We are deeply moved and humbled by this recognition coming from our peers amongst the UK dance sector.
We extend our respect, love and care to the two other outstanding organisations/artists nominated alongside us: Anjali Dance Company and Lisa Simpson.
We dedicate this award to all the artists, venues, funders, friends and allies who have played a part in supporting the work and research across the past 17 years.
Thank you to One Dance UK and to the judges for giving us this platform and visibility.
Thank you to the person/s who nominated us for this Award, for watching over us and writing this beautiful description of what we do:
“Dam has pushed the boundaries of the art form with his working methodology, combining a multitude of performative practices. With each new work he has challenged, developed, and extended his own choreographic language by fusing movement ideas with aural stimuli and environmental sounds, shaping space with the body and utilising vocal sound as acts of protest, activism, and universal healing. His cross-disciplinary approach is steeped in a deep knowledge of the contemporary dance canon alongside non-Western dance forms, also with a knowledge of critical theory and post-colonial studies and its importance in the future development of contemporary dance practice.”
Photo credit:
Dam Receiving his award / Dani Bower photographer for One Dance UK
Van Huynh Co rehearsing at Centre 151 / Tom Selmon
Creative team of Moving Eastman taking their bows at the Barbican