After initially pursuing a career in veterinary medicine, Tony discovered his love of dance in part through classes at Dance Base and has been working as professional dance artist in Scotland for almost 20 years, becoming Artistic Director in 2021. Prior to taking over at Dance Base, Tony was Artistic Director of Room 2 Manoeuvre (R2M). He has worked with Freshmess Dance Company, State of Emergency, Off Kilter, Iron Oxide, Curious Seed, David Hughes Dance Productions, All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre, Scottish Ballet, Derevo, and the international street dance show, Blaze. He has also worked as a movement director/choreographer in theatre for companies such as Terra incognita, Cutting-Edge Theatre and commercially for high profile stars such as Martin Garrix and Kelly Rowland. In 2015, R2M took up residence at The Brunton in Musselburgh and in 2018 the company produced the first international festival of dance and sport called At Your Leisure taking place across East Lothian and Edinburgh City. R2M, has toured work across the UK, Europe, South America and Asia. Recent productions included Alley Oop for Edinburgh International Children’s Festival 2021 and the national tour of pop-up hip-hop show City Breakz 2021. As Artistic Director, tony contributes to organisational strategy and operation, leads on programming, curation and design of professional and public programmes and co-design of dance for health and wellbeing and engagement programme and curates an international dance platform during the Edinburgh Fringe.