Max Cookward is an internationally recognized movement artist, choreographer, and filmmaker working across live performance, fashion, music, and film. Represented by BOX Artist Management, Max’s practice is rooted in themes of transformation, impermanence, and queer liberation. They often create in natural landscapes and site-specific locations around the world, weaving together elements of meditative raving, minimalism, and wildness to craft emotionally charged, visually striking work.

Max’s creative output stretches across multiple mediums. They work fluidly across music videos, fashion shows, campaigns, and live performance, collaborating with global brands and artists while also developing an independent body of work that includes films such as DAREDREAM, One Another, Portrait of a Dancer, and BROTHERS. Their work has been consistently recognized by leading media outlets including Vogue, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, NYLON, Promonews, Creative Review, Dazed, and NOWNESS.

In the commercial and cultural sphere, Max has choreographed and movement-directed for Nike Japan, Zara, ROMBAUT SS25 Paris Fashion Week, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fontaines D.C, Anitta, Vic De Angelis, Burberyy, Dua Lipa and multiple Diesel campaigns under Glenn Martens.

As a dancer, Max has toured globally with FKA twigs’ EUSEXUA World Tour. They also contributed to the visual language of the tour, filming behind-the-scenes and on-stage footage under the mentorship of Jordan Hemmingway, which evolved into integrated live-screen content. 

Other credits as a dancer include performing work by/ for Rambert Company, Gallim, Moncler, Adidas Y3, Damien Jalet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Imre and Marne Van Opstal, Blackhaine, Ohad Naharin, Candela Capitan, Marcos Morau, Holly Blakey, and Andrea Miller.

Max’s independent film work has earned international acclaim, winning awards including Best Dance Film (Berlin Indie Film Festival), Best Experimental Short (Hawaii Film Awards), and Best Cinematography (San Francisco Arthouse Short Film Festival). Critics have described Max’s work as “fluid, emotional, and unforgettable.”

In addition to their performance and directing work, Max leads Movement Meditation workshops internationally, including with Flux Projects, Rambert and Gibney New York. This practice expands their artistic language into facilitation, guiding others through embodiment, ritual, and improvisation as creative and healing processes.