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Dan Daw Creative Projects for Candoco Dance Company: Over and Over (and over again)

Preview performance, part of Undisciplined Festival

About Over and Over (and over again)

Time stretches. The dance floor is a paradise. This moment is all there is. We are lifted by the lights, held by the music. Our hard edges soften and our hearts swell - finding place, finding ground, finding home.

Join Candoco and Dan Daw Creative Projects on a beat-driven, joyful journey to a perfect rave - a place where everyone is welcome and where you love doing something so much that you would never want to stop.

Told through Dan Daw’s unique weaving of dance, narrative and iconography and co-directed by storytelling raver Stef O’Driscoll, Over and Over (and over again) looks at what happens when a beat takes hold, and we dare to colour outside the lines to create our own dance-floor utopia.

ACCESS INFORMATION:

Pre Show Drop-In

The Pre-Show Access drop-in is free and open to anyone who would benefit from attending. It runs from 7.15pm to 7.45pm.

Hosts from the Candoco team will be available to enable audience members to engage with:

● An explanation of triggers from the Trigger Menu

● Images of the performers and their costumes

● Experience the brightest lighting of the show

● Experience the loudest sound within the show

● Access to a reserved seat (to be decided) ahead of the doors opening.

Relaxed Performance - This is a relaxed show where audiences are invited to move around, leave and return, whatever they need. All performances will be relaxed.

Captioning - Embedded captioning into the show means we can offer this at every performance.

CONTENT ADVISORY:

Language: Strong language

Themes: Mature theme

Sound: Loud music throughout the show

Lightning: Warning: Flashing Lights throughout the show

Haze: Warning: Haze is a fine, translucent mist or haze created by a haze machine.

CREDITS:

Creative Team

Dan Daw - Co-Director

Stef O'Driscoll - Co-Director

Liz Counsell - Dan Daw Creative Projects Executive Director & Studio Culture (lead)

S Froud - Production Manager (lead)

Helen Mugridge - Production Manager (touring)

Amy Butler - Rehearsal Director and Choreographic consultant

Nao Nagai - Lighting Designer

Guy Connelly - Composer

Erin Guan - Design Concept and Costume Design Concept

S Froud - Design Realisation

Shanti Freed - Costume realisation

Candoco Company Dancers

Temitope Ajose - Dancer & collaborator

Annie Edwards - Dancer & collaborator

Maiya Leeke - Dancer & collaborator

James Olivo - Dancer & collaborator

Anna Seymour - Dancer & collaborator

Candoco Team

Raquel Meseguer Zafe - Co-Artistic Director

Dominic Mitchell - Co-Artistic Director

Lucie Mirkova - Head of Programmes

Will Bridgland - Producer (commissions)

Louisa Sutherland - Producer (learning)

Ellen Booth - Producer (interim)

Lottie Vallis - Studio Access Support Worker

Shyam Persaud - Access co-ordinator (interim)

Jasmin Fiori - Communications Manager

Melanie Precious - Executive Director

Angie Goddard - General Manager

Partners

Dance East

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA)

Cockayne Foundation

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Patron

Sir Alistair Spalding Sadlers Wells

Celeste Daneker

Allies

Candoco is proud to be part of an inclusive dance ecology in the UK. We recognise we could not do this work without the support of our allies. We celebrate our interdependence in sharing knowledge, skills and together pushing the boundaries of inclusive practice. In particular we’d like to acknowledge the support of:

Lucy Glover & Laura Jones at StopGap who recommended Amy Butler and Lottie Vallis.

Kate Marsh at C-DARE who wrote a ‘curatorial gaze’ on the process.

With thanks to…

Jay Yule, Neve Harrington, Yasmin Foster, Chisato Ohno and Xan Dye.

FUNDING CREDITS:

With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels. This commission was also supported by Arts Council England, and Cockayne Grants for the Arts, held at The London Community Foundation.

QUOTES:

“It’s super exciting for DDCP to have been invited by Raquel and Dominic to work with the company in this way. Our ethos feels more aligned, and we’re making a piece with the company’s dancers that will be full of heart and centres joy, messiness and the sometimes unpredictable nature of the disabled lived experience.”
- Dan Daw

“I find Dan’s work to be starkly beautiful and am struck by how he draws us in, irresistibly, so that it’s impossible to turn away from the challenge as well as the beauty of the human experience.”
- Raquel Meseguer Zafe

“I deeply resonate with Dan Daw’s ability to identify preconceived notions and assumptions, and then unapologetically subvert them.”
- Dominic Mitchell