WORKS

Over and Over (and over again)

By Candoco Dance Company & Dan Daw Creative Projects
2025
NEW WORK
Experience a beat-driven, joyful journey to the perfect rave with Candoco Dance Company and Dan Daw Creative Projects

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 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.

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 between November 2024 and March 2025, with its premiere scheduled for Spring 2025 in the UK.

 

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.

For more information about this new work, please visit the link below:
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.

Production details

Co-Directed by:

Dan Daw (Dan Daw Creative Projects) and Stef O’Driscoll

Produced by:

Candoco Dance Company

Performed by:

Temitope Ajose, Annie Edwards, Maiya Leeke, James Olivo and Anna Seymour

Music by:

Guy Connelly

Lighting Design by:

Nao Nagai

Costumes:

Erin Guan

Set Design:

Erin Guan

Projections:

Erin Guan

Production Management by:

Froud

Photography/Videography by:

Hugo Glendinning

Year

2025

Funders

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