The Dan Daw Show
Dan Daw Creative Projects
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16+
The Pre-Show Access session
The Pre-Show Access session is free and open to anyone who would benefit from attending.
It starts one hour before the scheduled start of the show.
Hosts from The Dan Daw Show team will be available to enable audience members to access the space and information about the show.
Accessibility
The performance is presented with audio description for people with visual impairments and Greek surtitles with SDH elements for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
In the Pre-Show Access session, interpretation services to Greek Sign Language will be offered.
All accessibility services are being offered in collaboration with cultural organization liminal.
Reservations for persons with disabilities: 213 017 8036 & infotickets@onassis.org
Tickets
Tickets presale starting date: Friday 7 April 2023, 17:00
Trigger Warnings
Depictions of kink experiences, suffocation, humiliation, dominant behavior, sexually explicit depictions and language, descriptions of feeling othered, loud noises, flashing lights, and sexy disabled people.
The defiantly sincere Dan Daw celebrates his body and eroticism for the first time with a performance that has already been met with glorious reviews from the international Press. Nominated for UK’S National Dance Awards, this work is like nothing we've seen before.
Photo: Hugo Glendinning
After having spent a lifetime being an inspiration to others, Dan is finally seizing the moment to inspire himself. Taking ownership of the beautiful mess that encompasses all that he is, Dan lets go of who he once was to make room for who he wants to be.
Dan is joined in an intimate evening of play by performer and collaborator Christopher Owen (Joe Moran, Scottish Dance Theatre) where Dan takes back the power by being dominated on his own terms.
Nominated for the 2021 National Dance Awards, the 2022 UK Theatre Achievement in Dance Award and directed by Mark Maughan (“The Claim,” “Petrification”), The Dan Daw Show is a peep into the shiny and sweaty push-pull of living with shame while bursting with pride. This is a show about care, intimacy, and resilience, about letting go and reclaiming yourself.
Access the world of the show before the start of the performance
- The Pre-Show Access session is free and open to anyone who would benefit from attending.
- It starts one hour before the scheduled start of the show.
Hosts from The Dan Daw Show team will be available to enable audience members to access the space and information about the show.
Resources and Opportunities in Pre-Show Access are:
- Access to members of the Dan Daw Creative Projects team
- Access to the space, props, and set
Please note that this is only available for the first 40 minutes of the session:
- Explanation of triggers from the Trigger Menu
- Images of the performers and their costumes
- Experiencing the brightest lighting of the show
- Experiencing the loudest sound within the show
- Finding your allocated seat (or reserving one if there is open seating)
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The Dan Daw Show
“Certainly, Daw’s show is unlike anything else you are likely to see”
- The Guardian
“Unapologetic, vulnerable, brilliant”
- The Stage
“This performance was one of the best performances we have seen lately. It is very empowering and eye-opening, showing how people with disabilities are often unfairly excluded from several things in life and demonstrates the inequality and stigma that exists towards disabled people. Dan Daw connects perfectly with the audience and shows how each body can and deserves to be celebrated.”
- YASS Magazine
“Daw joyfully demonstrates that his body is beloved, audacious, sexual, and disabled – not but, but and.”
- Springback Magazine
“Daw’s use of kink to explore his relationship with his own body does seem cathartic to him, and it’s never anything less than watchable.”
- The Reviews Hub
CREDITS
Creative Team
Performers & Collaborators
Dan Daw & Christopher Owen
Artistic Director
Dan Daw
Director
Mark Maughan
Movement & Rehearsal Director
Sarah Blanc
Designer
Emma Bailey
Lighting Designer
Nao Nagai
Composition & Sound Design
Guy Connelly
Dramaturg
Brian Lobel
Artistic Peer Support
Dr. Kate Marsh
Assistant Director
Thyrza Abrahams
Production Team
Production & Stage Manager
Froud
Executive Director
Liz Counsell
Access Coordinator
Zed Lightheart
With special thanks to
Invincible Rubber, Katie Vine, Tsubi Du, and Phil Hargreaves
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England through project grants, co-commissioned in 2019/20 by Sadler’s Wells, Arts House Melbourne, Dance Hub Birmingham, The Lowry, Déda, Cambridge Junction, DanceXchange, and Dance4. Supported by Shoreditch Town Hall, Candoco Dance Company, and I’m Here, Where Are You? Festival. Research supported by Jerwood Choreographic Research Project II.
