Wynn Holmes is a choreographer and director whose work spans concert performance, film, fashion, and immersive movement. Rooted in Celtic traditional dance yet informed by contemporary and somatic practices, Holmes creates performances that bridge myth and modernity, turning the body into both archive and storytelling instrument. Her practice fuses precision, symbolic resonance, and visual dramaturgy, producing experiences that are both rigorous and evocative.
Her work has been commissioned, presented, and celebrated across stages, museums, galleries, festivals, and screens worldwide, ranging from large-scale concert works and site-specific installations to editorial films, fashion campaigns, and hybrid multimedia experiences. With an emphasis on the body as both material and meaning, Holmes’ choreography bridges avant-garde performance with commercial and collaborative projects that challenge and expand conventional movement language.
Holmes has been featured at the Cannes Film Festival, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris, Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris, Place des Arts in Montréal, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Lincoln Center in New York, Centre Phi in Montréal, Société des arts technologiques, Belgrade National Theatre, and numerous international touring festivals and performance labs across Europe and North America. She has collaborated with globally recognized artists, brands, and cultural platforms including Louis Vuitton, Versace, SSENSE, SHOWstudio, Vogue, W Magazine, V Magazine, i-D, DAZED, Madonna, Leon Bridges, Cœur de pirate, J. Cole, RZA, and The Kills.
Holmes is internationally recognized for her interdisciplinary movement practice, pioneering a choreography that fuses tradition, somatic research, and contemporary performance. Her work has been profiled in leading global media and fashion publications and continues to expand the possibilities of movement in performance, screen, and installation contexts. She has participated in residencies and fellowships at leading arts institutions, furthering her practice of innovative and transformative movement.
Since 2014, Holmes has integrated advanced somatic and anatomical research into her creative process. Drawing from the Lilian Arlen Method, Body-Mind Centering®, and ongoing embodiment studies, she develops work that is both highly precise and imaginatively expansive, exploring the body as a vehicle for myth, memory, and ritual. In addition to her creative work, Holmes leads workshops, residencies, and masterclasses worldwide, emphasizing embodiment, somatic awareness, and choreographic authorship, guiding dancers, performers, and interdisciplinary artists to explore new expressive terrains.