It’s one thing being a brand new innovative dance company making headlines across the world, with a TV show to boot, but quite another to maintain your reputation year after year, show after show.

But Balletboyz has achieved just that, championing new work, differing concepts, brave choreography and a burning desire to push the boundaries of dance now more than ever.

Harry Price is one of their newest finds, and the 22 year-old has picked up the gamut and run with it. Fresh from the all male Swan Lake tour with Matthew Bourne, Balletboyz founders Michael Nunn and William Trevitt auditioned him and tucked him in under their wing.

Now a year into his residency, Harry will be demonstrating why he was hand-picked, along with the rest of the hugely talented male troupe in a double bill of contemporary new work Life, featuring two new commissions by Javier de Frutos and Pontus Lidberg.

Both choreographers were given the title and asked to create piece for a group of ten young men, something beyond the obvious. Hugely different in both content and motivation, Harry says they contrast each other perfectly while demonstrating the enormous breadth and depth of contemporary dance. “It’s a really interesting evening of work, stuff you won’t have seen before. The first is more Neoclassical, with a great fluidity of movement while Javier’s is more theatrical and experimental.

“The creation process was equally as fascinating, the first specifically choreographed while the second was more immersive and improvised as is his way."

It means the works are constantly evolving so no two nights are the same and that’s what I love. It’s not like classical ballet where you do the same steps night after night. At Balletboyz you never get stale because things are always changing and evolving. You never repeat yourself."

As for the all male aspect, Harry is fairly nonplussed about it. He says they have developed a new series of lifts, and it takes a while to adapt to the new line-up, but otherwise it’s dance like anything else. "It means we all get our moment in the limelight instead of lifting the female ballerinas and making them look good. And we get on really well as a group and spend so much time together its hard to imagine it any other way. We are a unit."

Having trained as a classical ballet dancer, who then specialised in contemporary dance, Harry is relishing every show.

“I’ve always loved Balletboyz and looked up the company when I was training because they are so new and innovative, such a dynamic company to work for, so this has been an amazing opportunity for me. I find it really relevant and rewarding.”

Training in dance from the age of 11, it has always been the only thing on Harry’s radar, Balletboyz being the ultimate company to set his sights on. But despite the acclaim, Harry is still pushed to the limits, learning new pieces, moves and touring and performing constantly, having been to the US, Japan and Australia with Balletboyz already. "We have an amazing following around the world.

And having performed at Oxford's New Theatre last time around with the ENB youth company in My First Cinderella his appearance in Life is almost a coming of age story in itself.

"We live, eat and breath dance. You have to love it to do it, but it’s such a great career if you make it. And so many people want to be dancers, yet very few get to be in their dream company's so I’m very lucky."