Dan Daw Creative Projects

Dan is Associate Director of Sydney-based performance company Murmuration. Working in partnership with Sarah-Vyne Vassallo to commission, develop, and produce new work by disabled artists, Dan plays an integral role in the development and delivery of Murmuration’s artistic programs and community activities. Dan continues to work at the forefront of dance and disability in Australia and the UK, having commissioned two solo works – “Beast” by Martin Forsberg and “On One Condition” by Graham Adey, which received the Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award 2017.

“Beast,” a Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Compass Commission, supported by Arts Council England, previewed at the Swedish Performing Arts Biennale (May 2015), Brighton Dome (November 2015), and premiered at Greenwich Dance (November 2015). Resulting from its inclusion in British Dance Edition (March 2016), “Beast” toured to Sydney Festival (January 2018) and Berlin’s Sophiensaele (June 2018).

“On One Condition,” a co-commission with Murmuration (AUS), premiered at Skånes Dansteater (September 2015), before being presented at Sadler’s Wells, New York’s SoHo Playhouse, Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals 2017, where it received the Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award.
Dan began working as a performer with Restless Dance Theatre in 2002, and since then 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). Throughout his performance career, Dan 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, Carlos Motta, Martin Forsberg, Carl Olof Berg, Dinis Machado, and Javier de Frutos.

Dan continues to work at the forefront of collaborative performance-making in Australia and the UK. He 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 the National Theatre Step Change Programme (2012), Dance UK’s Mentor Bursary (2013), Sadler’s Wells Summer University (2015-2018), and Belgrade Theatre’s Agent for Change (2018), furthermore evidencing his ambitions as a disabled artist to impact and lead the conversation on dance and disability.