Press Release: Dan Daw returns to the Lilian Baylis Studio

[Jan McNulty]

Tuesday 10 March 2020

Dan Daw Creative Projects
The Dan Daw Show
Lilian Baylis Studio, EC1R 4TN
Thursday 4 & Friday 5 June 2020
Performances: Thursday & Friday at 8pm
Tickets: £17
Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com

 

Following the curation of a Wild Card evening in 2017, in which he questioned our understanding of success and failure, Dan Daw returns to the Lilian Baylis Studio with The Dan Daw Show, on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 June 2020.

 

After years of inspiring non-disabled people simply because of who he is perceived to be, Daw seizes the moment to inspire himself. By taking ownership of the beautiful mess that encompasses all that he is, Daw lets go of who he once was, to make room for who he wants to be. 

 

Daw is joined in an intimate evening of play by performer Christopher Owen (Joe Moran; Scottish Dance Theatre). The Dan Daw Show is a peep into the shiny and sweaty push-pull of living with shame, while bursting with pride. 

Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning
 

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Sadler’s Wells 

Sadler’s Wells is a world-leading creative organisation dedicated to dance in all its forms. With a rich theatrical heritage of over three centuries, it offers a year-round programme of performances and learning activities. Our mission is to make and share dance that inspires us all. Our vision is to create, through dance, a depth of connection beyond borders, cultures and languages, so we see ourselves in each other. 

 

Audiences of over half a million come to Sadler’s Wells’ three London theatres each year, with many more enjoying our touring productions at venues across the UK and around the world and accessing our content through digital channels. Sadler's Wells commissions, produces and presents more dance than any other theatre in the world, embracing the popular and the unknown. Since 2005, we have helped to bring over 170 new dance works to the stage, many of them involving our 16 Associate Artists, three Resident Companies and four Associate Companies – the most exciting talents working in dance today. 

 

Sadler’s Wells nurtures the next generation of talent through a range of artist development initiatives and reaches over 30,000 annually through our learning and engagement programmes.

 

Located in Islington, north London, Sadler’s Wells’ current building is the sixth to have stood on site since entrepreneur Richard Sadler first established the theatre in 1683. The venue has played an illustrious role in the history of theatre ever since, with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Opera having all started at Sadler's Wells.

 

Sadler’s Wells is to open an additional mid-scale venue in east London in 2022. The new space will be at the heart of the East Bank project, a new cultural and education district in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, which will also include BBC, UAL’s London College of Fashion, UCL and the V&A in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. As well as a 550-seat auditorium, our new venue will include a choreographic centre and a hip hop theatre academy, the first of their kind in the world to be run by a theatre.

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About Dan Daw 

Daw launched Dan Daw Creative Projects in 2015 by commissioning two solo works – ‘Beast’ by Martin Forsberg and ‘On One Condition’ by Graham Adey, which received the Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award 2017. Daw 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), Candoco Dance Company (UK) and Skånes Dansteater (SWE).

 

Throughout his performance career, Daw has worked with Kat Worth, Garry Stewart, Kate Champion, Janet Smith, Adam Benjamin, Wendy Houstoun, Sarah Michelson, Rachid Ouramdane, Nigel Charnock, Matthias Sperling, Marc Brew, Claire Cunningham, Martin Forsberg, Carl Olof Berg and Javier de Frutos.

 

A Candoco Associate Artist and a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist (2015 – 2018), Daw continues to work at the forefront of collaborative performance making in the UK. Daw is a recipient of the BBC/South East Dance Performing Arts Fund Fellowship, the Outlet Dance Award and the Russell Page Fellowship in Contemporary Dance amongst others. He has been a part of One Dance UK’s Mentor Bursary and the National Theatre Step Change programme, furthermore evidencing his ambitions as a disabled artist to impact and lead the conversation on dance and disability.

 

Working as Associate Director, in partnership with Sarah-Vyne Vassallo, to commission, develop and produce new work and co-manages support and reflection for the company’s independent artists with disability, Daw plays an integral role in the development and delivery of Murmuration’s artistic programs and community activities.

 

In late 2019, he began making ‘The Dan Daw Show’ in collaboration with theatre director Mark Maughan and a larger creative team, which tours from May 2020. This is a continuation of their research supported by Jerwood Choreographic Research Project II in 2017.