After having spent a lifetime being an inspiration to others, Dan is finally seizing the moment to inspire himself.
Taking ownership of the beautiful mess that encompasses all that he is, Dan lets go of who he once was to make room for who he wants to be.
Dan is joined in an intimate evening of play by performer and collaborator Christopher Owen (Joe Moran, Scottish Dance Theatre) where Dan takes back the power by being dominated on his own terms.
Nominated for the 2021 National Dance Awards, the 2022 UK Theatre Achievement in Dance Award and directed by Mark Maughan (The Claim, Petrification), The Dan Daw Show is a peep into the shiny and sweaty push pull of living with shame while bursting with pride. This is a show about care, intimacy and resilience, about letting go and reclaiming yourself.
Dan Daw Creative Projects explores what it means for queer, crip bodies to occupy, and be unapologetic in, non-disabled spaces. We are interested in the function access, care, consent and joy have in those spaces.
Their productions have been featured at, among others, the British Dance Edition, the Swedish Performing Arts Biennial, the Sydney Festival, Sophiensaele, SoHo Playhouse, and Sadler’s Wells.
Dan began working as a performer with Restless Dance Theatre in 2002, and since then Dan has gone on to work with Australian Dance Theatre (AUS), Force Majeure (AUS), FRONTLINEdance (UK), Scottish Dance Theatre (UK), balletLORENT (UK) and Skånes Dansteater (SWE). Currently, Dan is the deputy director at the performing arts organization 'Murmurations.
Dan continues to work at the forefront of collaborative performance making in Australia and the UK, furthermore evidencing his ambitions as disabled artist to impact and lead the conversation on dance and disability.
Artistic director: Dan Daw
Director: Mark Maughan
Movement and rehearsal director Sarah Blanc
Design: Emma Bailey
Lighting Designer: Nao Nagai
Sound Designer: Guy Connelly
Dramaturgy: Brian Lobel
Kunstniku tugi: Dr Kate Marsh
Artistic peer support: Thyrza Abrahams
Production and stage management Froud
Production team executive director: Liz Counsell
Support: Arts Council of England, Estonian Cultural Endowment, British Counchil in Estonia
Co-production (Co-commissioned): Sadler’s Wells, Arts House Melbourne, DanceHub Birmingham, The Lowry, Déda, Cambridge Junction, DanceXchange ja Dance4.
Support: Shoreditch Town Hall, Candoco Dance Company and I’m Here, Where Are You? Festival
Research support: Jerwood Choreographic Research Project II.