Skip to main content

Octagon Bolton

  • What's on
  • Your Visit
  • Support Us
  • Get Involved
  • Hire
  • About
  • Basket

Site Menu.

Octagon Bolton

  • Account
  • Basket
  • Search
  • What's on
  • Your Visit
  • Support Us
  • Get Involved
  • Hire
  • About

More Site Pages.

  • Contact Us
  • Jobs & opportunities
  • For Artists
  • For Press
  • News & Blogs
  • Room hire
  • Performance Archive
Return to main

Gemma Payne

Gemma is a Choreographer and Movement Director working in theatre, opera, dance, television and film. She trained at The Royal Ballet Upper School and Central School of Ballet. She was a principal dancer with Matthew Bournes’ New Adventures & a soloist with Gothenburg Ballet. 

Choreography & Movement Director/ Coach:Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Leicester Curve/ ETT/), Ava (Riverside Studios), The Offing (Stephen Joseph Theatre/Live Theatre Newcastle), The Windsor’s Series 3 (Channel 4), Des Knaben Wunderhorn (RCM), Acis and Galatea (ENO), Turning Point Film & Shoes Can Save Us Film/Show (Jo Cope, Leicester Gallery) Pet Shop Boys - Monkey Business, (The One Show & ITV NTAs), Curtains (Mountview) Company (Leeds Conversatoire), Waitress (Mountview), Return to the Forbidden Planet (Mountview), Into the Woods (RNCM 50th Anniversary). The Chambers Scent ACE (Wiltons Music Hall studio).

Associate Choreographer and Movement Coach:Ballerina Overdrive (Amazon Prime), Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical (The Old Vic), Greatest Days - Take That ( Amazon Prime), INK (Almeida,West End, Broadway), Albion (Almeida), Love in the Idleness (Menier Chocolate Factory), Volpone (RSC), The Crown S2 (Netflix), Goodbye Christopher Robin Assistant Dance Coach(Fox Searchlight), Medea (Geneve, Paris Opera, ENO), Les Troyens (San Francisco, Vienna), Monkey Business video (Pet Shop Boys), Inner Sanctum ROH (Pet Shop Boys), Veils (GoGo Penguin) Barbican & Latitude. 

Rehearsal Director:Pet Shop Boys, (Hyde Park).

Related items

  1. Generous Octagon audiences & supporters raise over £6000 as part of national Arts For Impact campaign

    4 April 2024
  2. Fun for all the family at the Octagon this summer

    6 July 2023
  3. A person with a headpeice representing a pig kneeling on floor with a group of people hurdled around with their heads down

    Our acclaimed co-production of Animal Farm returns for 2025 ahead of UK tour

    20 June 2024

Join our mailing list

More Site Pages

  • Contact Us
  • Jobs & opportunities
  • For Artists
  • For Press
  • News & Blogs
  • Room hire
  • Performance Archive

  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • TikTok

Contact Details

Octagon Theatre
Howell Croft South
BL1 1SB
01204 520661

Funders

  • Principal Patron
    Sue Hodgkiss, CBE DL


Legal Pages

  • Terms & conditions
  • Cookie policy
  • Privacy policy
  • Site Map

Small Print

©2024. Registered Company 882226. Registered Charity Number 248833.

Website by Supercool.