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The choreographer, Trinity Laban Honorary Fellow and former member of our Faculty of Dance has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List 2021 for services to dance.

Over the course of his award-winning career, Dr Hopps has choreographed for leading opera companies including English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera, and worked with both the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.

He has choreographed over 20 feature films, including The Wicker Man (1973), and worked with prominent directors and producers including Peter Hall, Kenneth Branagh, Trevor Nunn and Ang Lee.

A renowned educator, Dr Hopps was Senior Lecturer in Dance (1975-1978) and Director of MA Studies at Trinity Laban (1986-1989), co-creating the conservatoire’s first honours degree in choreography.

The eminent choreographer was also the Founding Director of Scottish Ballet’s Moveable Workshop, and helped set up a choreographers’ committee for the performing arts trade union Equity.

Dr Hopps commented –

“I am absolutely thrilled to receive an OBE.”

Dr Hopps is the latest in a growing list of Trinity Laban individuals who have received recognition in the New Year’s Honours Lists. In 2020, former Trinity Laban Director of Dance Mirella Bartrip was awarded a CBE and for services to dance/education and Trinity Laban composition professor Errollyn Wallen was upgraded to a CBE for services to music.

Congratulations to all our dance sector colleagues and music industry colleagues who were well represented among this year’s list.