Andrew Hurst trained at the Royal Ballet Lower and Upper Schools, and his first contact was with Basel Ballet in Switzerland. He later worked with Ballet Gulbenkian in Portugal, Nederlands
Dans Theater in Holland, Berlin Ballet at the Komische Oper in Berlin, and Rambert where he was Equity Deputy and started studying Business with the Open University, later making his transition from performing to managing whilst working there. He led the Dancers’ Management Team at Rambert, was General Manager and then Executive Director of
Phoenix Dance Theatre, and then went on to be Company Manager, and later Company & Tour Manager for The Royal Ballet.
He is Chief Executive of One Dance UK, and is proud to be the Chairman of Company Chameleon, and a non-Executive Director of Dance Consortium. He is currently one of 21 Global Arts Management Fellows taking part in the DeVos Institute of Arts and Non-Profit Management’s international Executive Fellowship programme.

He completed the MBA for Senior Leaders in Arts & Culture in 2022, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Chartered Management Institute, and was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list 2020 for ‘services to Dance, particularly during the Covid-19 Response’.