Max Cookward is an award-winning movement artist working with performance, choreography, film-making and short-form content for fashion designers, brands, music artists and independent art and community-focused projects.

Max’s work focuses on themes of transformation and impermanence. They primarily create in natural landscapes and site-specific locations around the world where they explore themes of queer liberation, meditative raving, environmentalism, minimalism, and wildness.

They have worked as a Choreographer / Movement Director internationally for music videos, commercials, live shows and editorials for clients such as NIKE Japan, The V&A, Jordan Luca, ROMBAUT, Burberry and Dua Lipa.

Alongside creating, Max works as a performer and is currently playing the lead role of Jean Paul Gaultier in the Fashion Freak Show world tour. Previously they have worked with companies Rambert and Gallim, as well as dancing for music artists including Kylie Minogue, Elton John, Harry Styles, Ellie Goulding, and for brands such as Moncler and Adidas Y3.

They have also danced in work by contemporary choreographers Damien Jalet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Blackhaine, Ohad Naharin, Candela Capitan, Marcos Morau, Holly Blakey, and Andrea Miller.

As a practitioner, Max has developed their own Movement Meditation workshops focused on giving people from all backgrounds an insight into embodied practice. They have taught these workshops across the UK, Europe and the USA at a variety of grassroots and large-scale institutions.