Over and Over (and over again)

Join Candoco Dance Company and Dan Daw Creative Projects on a journey to a place where everyone is welcome; where you love doing something so much that you never want to stop.

“The show explores dance as a freedom practice and the innate need to move. It questions what dances the body remembers, and what brings people to the dance floor. By asking for what they need, dancing their histories and telling their stories, five dancers release their burdens and reach for something better – however fleeting.” OneDance UK, press release, 2025.

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

The work will be created in November 2024 and between January – March 2025, with its premiere scheduled for Spring 2025 in the UK. Follow the creative process with our ‘Postcards From the Studio‘ – a series of weekly updates written by our Co-Artistic Directors, Raquel Meseguer Zafe and Dominic Mitchell, offering insights into the creation of the work.

Book your tickets via the Over and Over (and over again) event page

About Dan Daw Creative Projects: 

Dan Daw Creative Projects (DDCP) is a disabled-led company, who are leading the way in creating accessible international touring work that blurs the lines between theatre, dance and activism, alongside creating systemic change in institutions and the sector for d/Deaf and disabled artists and audiences through long-term partnerships and residencies.

DDCP’s work explores what it means for disabled bodies to occupy, and be unapologetic in non-disabled spaces. Their mission is to use the arts to provoke change and reclaim space. They use dance, theatre and activism to educate, inspire and advocate for those most in need, whose lived experiences are similar to our own.

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.

About Stef O’Driscoll

Stef is a critically acclaimed and award-winning theatre director who centres contemporary stories with a social-political heart directing new plays by some of the UK’s most significant theatrical voices.

Stef was the Interim Artistic Director at The Gate, Artistic Director of nabokov, and Associate Director at both Paines Plough and Lyric Hammersmith. Stef’s innovative storytelling spans across multiple art forms including theatre, music, raves, spoken word and film where they push the boundaries of gigs and theatre.

Accolades include the groundbreaking play With A Little Bit of Luck by Sabrina Mahfouz for the first radio play to be broadcast on BBC 1Xtra winning Best Radio production at the BBC Radio and Music Awards. Directing credits include: Brassic Fm (Zia Ahmed, Gate Theatre), The Flood (Vickie Donoghue, Queens Theatre Hornchurch), Love Reign (Shereen Jasmin Phillips, Young Vic), A History of Water in the Middle East (Sabrina Mahfouz, Royal Court Theatre), Inside This Box (Yamin Joseph, Clean Break), Lit (Sophie Ellerby, Nottingham Playhouse/Hightide), For Paines Plough: and Hopelessly Devoted (Kae Tempest), On The Other Hand We’re Happy (Daf James), Island Town (Simon Longman), Sticks and Stones (Vinay Patel). For the Lyric Hammersmith, as Co Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Stef has directed plays with criminal justice organisations Clean Break and Synergy, where she is currently an associate artist.

For more information about this new work and the confirmed upcoming dates, please visit the link below:
– Over and Over (and over again) Touring
– Press Features, Reviews and Interviews
– ‘Postcards From the Studio’ – offering insights into the creation of the work
– Candoco’s New Commission Announcement (April, 2024)

For any information about the commission’s booking and production, please contact our Head of Programme, Lucie Mirkova – lucie@candoco.co.uk.

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.