2Faced Dance are one of the UK's leading all male, urban contemporary, dance company's. Founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Tamsin Fitzgerald 2Faced Dance has established a unique ability to produce repertoire that combines athletic contemporary dance with heart in the mouth break dance moves. Bold, risk taking, adrenalin fuelled yet agile and graceful, 2Faced seek to push the boundaries of the physical.

Producing dance works that demonstrate artistry but that also challenge and entertain, 2Faced Dance have become renowned for creating work that inspires, constantly seeking to push the established meaning of the term contemporary dance.

At the heart of our company's ethos is education and collaboration and the company have developed a strong and unique programme of training young people and working with a wide range of artists in a variety of genres and at various stages of career development.

Underpinning all our work is the belief that dance can change lives. Whether you watch it, take part in it or question it.

Current Artistic Director Tamsin Fitzgerald founded 2Faced Dance Company in 1999. The company was created in order to offer young people living in rural Herefordshire the opportunity to participate in dance classes normally found in urban cities. Over the next three years break dance classes were created and a small group of young men aged 13 – 17 years old kept turning up week after week. Seeing their potential Tamsin decided to create a piece and take them to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2004 2Faced Youth Dance Company hit the Edinburgh Fringe with their break and contemporary fusion and sold out their show to huge critical and public acclaim. Over the following five years 2Faced Youth performed across the UK and Europe performing at a mixture of arts centers and celebrity events including the MTV Awards.

During this period Tamsin taught extensively across the UK developing a unique education programme for schools, colleges and youth centers offering fusion dance workshops, residencies and youth led performances. In the meantime 2Faced Youth became the first peer led dance group in the UK and spoke at various conferences about the company including for the NDTA and YDE. This innovative and ambitious youth company catapulted 2Faced Dance into the dance world and onto the professional stage.

In 2007 Tamsin decided to move the company forward and to the next level. She wanted to maintain the company's roots by offering young dancers with talent the opportunity to gain skills both practically and theoretically. So she introduced the apprenticeship programme in which urban dancers could learn skills in marketing, administration, education and management whilst still training practically. Tamsin wanted to start touring the company's work on a wider scale and decided to create work in which a full professional company would be employed. She wanted to make a clear break from the earlier work created on a youth company and went back to her roots of contemporary training developing her own, unique movement vocabulary. 2Faced Dance have since performed to over 100 venues across the UK with State of Matter and Still Breathing as well as branching into Europe with their new work Third and Infract. The company has been commissioned by and collaborated with a variety of arts organisations including Hofesh Shechter, DanceXchange, Leaps and Bounds and Circle of Eleven in Berlin. 2Faced are proud of the work that they have achieved so far establishing themselves in the mid scale touring market as well as on the arts festival circuit.

With equal importance put on education and the training of the next generation of the dance work force, 2Faced Dance have continued to extend its education and participation programmes working in schools in all counties in the UK. In the last year the company have taught just over 5000 young people and performed to approximately 10,000 people. They currently have 500 young people attending weekly workshops of which 324 are young men.

2Faced Dance wants to continue and develop the work it produces touring nationally as well as increasing its work abroad. The company wants to work with new and different artists and is commissioning two choreographers to create new work for the company for its Dancing for the Games project, taking place between 2011 and 2012. This will enable the company to diversify its performances and it looks to work with a range of both established and up and coming choreographers. It also looks to work with a wide range of urban artists from the worlds of circus, music and extreme sports. 2Faced want to continue to deliver high quality education work across the UK and within its home county of Herefordshire and are keen to establish a Centre for Urban Dance in rural Hereford.