Adam Russell-Jones is a dance artist born in the UK and based in Berlin. He began his vocational ballet training at Elmhurst School for dance in Birmingham at the age of twelve and subsequently went on to join the Royal Ballet School in London which he graduated in 2014 and received the Dame Ninnette DeValois Award for the most outstanding graduate. Russell-Jones then went on to join the Stuttgart Ballet where he dances in works of William Forsyth, Jiří Kylián and Marco Goecke. Whilst working with the Stuttgart Ballet, Russell-Jones was nominated for the Faust prize under the category of best performance for his role in Spectre de la Rose by Marco Goecke. In 2017 Russell-Jones joined the Nederlands Dans Theater, where he started to expand his contemporary dance repertoire and, as a result, began to critically re-examine his dance training and understanding of dance to date. During his time with NDT2 in the Netherlands, he performed in works by the most prominent contemporary choreographers, such as Sol Leon, Paul Lightfoot, Alexander Ekman, and Marina Mascarell. After his time with NDT2, he joined the Hanover Staatsballett under the leadership of the then-newly appointed director and choreographer Marco Goecke.
Since 2022 Russell-Jones has been working as a freelance artist residing in Berlin exploring performance within the context of contemporary art; since 2023, he has been focusing primarily on the form of solo performance.
As a rising star of the contemporary independent dance scene, Adam Russel-Jones will make his debut appearance before Czech audiences at the Flora Theatre Festival.