New Art Club is Tom Roden and Pete Shenton.  They started working together in 1995, formed the company in 2001 and have since produced a wealth of characteristically clever and funny dance shows.  They have toured nationally and internationally and won many awards.  Their The Short Still Show reached the final of The Place Prize for choreography in 2004. 

New Art Club’s breakthrough show was the hilarious spoof on contemporary dance, This Is Modern, which went down a storm with audiences and critics and has been touring solidly since its creation in 2003.  Their follow up show, The Electric Tales, is also continuing to tour three years after its debut.  Christmas Show, The Notcracker, premiered in 2006 and is touring again in 2007/08.

Pete Shenton is Co-Artistic Director of New Art Club.

He has  been touring nationally and internationally with their critically acclaimed shows This Is Modern, Electric tales, Dance, Jokes and Dance Jokes and The Visible Men for over 7 years.

Over the last 14 years Pete has developed a reputation as a choreographer, writer, performer and teacher in dance and dance theatre. In 1994 he graduated from DeMontfort University with a first class degree in Performing Arts.  He subsequently worked as a dancer in Europe with companies such as ContreCour and Teater Tango and in the UK with Vincent Dance Theatre and Motionhouse.  

In recent years Pete has directed The Three Graces for Laurie Lorry Theatre Company created commissions for Dance Umbrella, Home Ale, Probe, Fan Club and Scottish Dance Theatre and co-choreographed New Art Club’s The Short Still Show, which reached the final of The Place Prize for choreography.  He was commissioned by Dance 4 to create a version of Thomas Lehmann’s Schreibstuck, appeared on TV in Tim Supple’s film Twelfth Night and performed and movement directed for theatre company Metro Boulot Dodo. 

Tom Roden is Co-Artistic director of New Art Club.

Formerly based in the North West of England as artistic director of Air Dance Company Tom is now co-director of New Art Club. He is also an independent choreographer/performer in dance and opera working with some of the UK's leading dance companies, opera houses and training institutions.

As a performer Tom has danced the lead role in The Cunning Little Vixen at The Bregenz Festival, Austria, performed in the film of Twelfth Night for Channel 4 and appeared with seminal Manchester based theatre company The Glee Club. He has danced with The Claire Russ Ensemble,The Gregory Nash Group, Reckless Sleepers and was a founder member of Chapter 4.

Tom's recent commissions for dance companies include Revenge Of The Impossible Things for Scottish DanceTheatre, A Stop of Go's for Dair, The Up and Down People for Ascendance, He Said She Said for Verve and A New Fine System at London School Of Contemporary Dance.

Between 1994 and 2001 he was the choreographer and artistic director of the all male Air Dance Company. Performing extensively throughout the UK, Air's repertoire included PG, a hit at Edinburgh Festival 2000, Tom FM, Standing on The Shoulders Of Giants and A Christmas Show.

His opera and theatre credits include The Magic Flute for Opera North and Babette's Feast at The Royal Opera House (directed by Tim Supple), Edward II at Bolton Octagon (director Lawrence Till) and Elixir Of Love for Grange Park Opera (director Martin Constantine).