Antonia Grove (Toni)
Freelance Participation Producer, Performer (She/Her)
Toni is a choreographer, writer, filmmaker, facilitator, lecturer and award-winning performer with over two decades experience leading Contemporary Dance and cross-artform collaborations. As Artistic Director of Probe (2004-2018), Toni reshaped the industry with ‘boundary-blurring’ (The Times) multidisciplinary & experimental productions, devising and performing work commissioned by internationally celebrated choreographers, directors, writers and cross artform collaborators.
As a performer she has worked in prestigious companies including Rambert Dance Company, Walker Dance Park Music, Company Wayne Mcgregor, The National Theatre, Bonachela Dance Company, Teac Damsa, The Cholmondeleys, Charles Linehan Company, Clod Ensemble and Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT). Performing physically & technically demanding contemporary dance repertoire (Merce Cunningham, Mats Ek, Christopher Bruce, Jiri Kylian, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, Ohad Naharin etc), alongside cross artform dance and theatre work (Lindsey Kemp, Lea Anderson, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Wendy Houstoun, Matthias Sperling, New Art Club etc).
Toni has worked with VDT since 2015, performing and collaborating on: Underworld, Virgin Territory, Art of Attachment and Hold Tight.
Toni was a winner of the first Place Prize by Rafael Bonachela, has been nominated 3 times for the Critics Circle National Dance Awards- best female dancer (modern)- and a Time Out Live Award. Awards for Probe include: Guglielmo Ebreo Award & London Theatre Award nomination. After six full-length touring productions with Probe she now leads projects under my own name.
Toni regularly leads, facilitates and designs trauma-attuned creative spaces for marginalised, mixed ability and multi-generational groups and individuals to find artistic expression through art/dance with safety and access at the core.
Toni recently obtained her MA: Creative Practice from Trinity Laban, researching relationships between female hormones and creativity. She has 3 children and is an activist for mothers working in the Arts.