Kim Brandstrup studied film at the University of Copenhagen and choreography with Nina Fonaroff at the London Contemporary Dance School.

Kim has been working as a choreographer since 1983 and in 1985 founded his own dance company ARC. He has created many new works for ARC and they have toured both the UK, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Mexico.

Current and recent freelance work includes: White Lead for Royal Swedish Ballet 2005 as part of NOKO - a celebration of Nordic choreography; Two footnotes for Ashton, ROH2, comprising a solo for Zenaida Yanovsky and a duet for Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg; Theme and Inversion, a duet for White Christmas, The Place; Songs of a Wayfarer, Rambert Dance Company, Edinburgh Festival 2004, UK Autumn Tour 2004 and Spring Tour 2005 and 2006; The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, a feature film with Brothers Quay; Afsked, a duet created for a programme of dance entitled Out of Denmark, with Zenaida Yanovsky and Dylan Elmore.

Recent work with ARC: The Anatomy of a Storyteller, a Hans Christian Anderson project at the ROH Linbury Theatre and Denmark 2005; Hamlet, which was also invited to Elsinore in 2003; Brothers, 2002, Elegy, 2001. Among the many new pieces created by Kim, are: The Queen of Spades, a full length ballet, for Les Grands Ballets Canadiennes, Montreal; In Place of Stone for Norwegian Ballet and Sleeping Beauty for Royal New Zealand Ballet.

This summer Kim collaborates with Phyllida Lloyd on an evening entitled The Fall of the House of Usher for the Bregenz Festival, which will incorporate both the unfinished Debussy opera and his L'Apres midi d'un faune and Jeux.