PRIME Artistic Director Kally Lloyd-Jones spends a full week in the studio with PRIME, Dance Base’s in-house company for over 60s, to create new repertory work.

In preparation for the week, company members were asked to consider:

What do you keep pushing for?

What have you given up (or accepted, or given in to)?

What will you never stop doing or fighting for?

What have you compromised or adapted (and how?)

What is one piece of music which embodies either the feeling you have about about pushing/pushing through/pushing for something, or that embodies the feeling of accepting/giving in/giving up/grace?

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Kally Lloyd-Jones was born and raised in Scotland.  She initially trained at the Theatre Arts Ballet School and Central School of Ballet in London and has an MA in English Literature and Film Studies from Glasgow University.

She has worked extensively as a choreographer, director, movement director, dancer, teacher and choreologist in the UK as well as internationally and has also developed senior management experience and leadership roles in both Canada and the UK. Kally was Joint Director of the Byre Theatre in St Andrews from 2019—autumn 2023 and was a founder member and then Chair of The Work Room from 2016-2021.

She has worked with companies including the Royal Swedish Ballet, The Royal Ballet School, David Hughes Dance Company, Desrosiers Dance Theatre, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scottish Opera, The Citizens Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic, The Tron Theatre, The Traverse, The Lyceum, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Danish National Opera, Liceu Barcelona, National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Book Festival.

As founder and Artistic Director of Company Chordelia, Kally has created over 14 full length dance theatre productions for the company including  The Seven Deadly Sins, Dance Derby, Nijinsky’s Last Jump, Lady Macbeth: unsex me here and The Chosen. Kally was awarded a Herald Angel for directing The Seven Deadly Sins, a co-production with Scottish Opera and Company Chordelia received the Sunday Herald Culture Award for Best Live Performance 2017 and was twice in the Guardian’s Top 10 Dance Shows of the Year.

Kally has directed opera productions for Scottish Opera, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Byre Opera, Edinburgh Grand Opera, Tête a Tête Opera and Joby Burgess, and Bloomsbury Opera.

Recent credits include choreographing The Merry Widow, Trial by Jury and A Matter of Misconduct for Scottish Opera/Opera Holland Park/D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Grease for Pitlochry Festival Theatre and directing Le Vin Herbé for Byre Opera. Kally is currently working on Revel, a new show for Company Chordelia, in collaboration with Steinvör Palsson, and is delighted to have been appointed Artistic Directorship of PRIME Elders Dance Company in September 2025.

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