d a n i e l_w e a v e r

c o m p o s e r_p e r f or m e r

News of my musical activities working as a composer/performer and also workshops/teaching

my new email address is daniel(at)danielweaver.co.uk

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Brief news 2010

March Choreography swap at Sadlers Wells. www.corali.org.uk

January-Feb The wonderful Corali Dance Company celebrate it's 21st birthday this year with performances in Feb. at Whitechapel Gallery London, seminar at Tate Modern

Brief news 2010

December Personal training in Psychodramatic group work. More development with Corali towards a seminar at Tate Modern plus development work on my own training skills.

November Development work with Corali for the 21st birthday performance at Whitechapel gallery.

October Composing for Ordsall community arts. Outdoor show with choral singing, water display and an elephant.

Sept Performing at Dublin Fringe.

August Innerscapes2, Wexford Opera House, Ireland. A new show for Myriad Dance company.

April Innerscapes, teaching project for Dancers in Wexford Ireland (with Wolfgang Hoffmann.) For Myriad Dance company.

March Solo concert, Royal Exchange theatre.

Feb sound design for Squawkbox, a one woman show by Eleanor Hooper

Dec Solo cabaret gigs and teaching work.

"Daniel Weaver's looping guitar gradually spun order from chaos as pieces developed, with what seemed to be complex re-sampling of earlier loops as new material was laid down. Some tunes were more demanding whilst others were more melodic and we thought some made connections with Robert Fripp. One interesting thing about Daniel's work is the physicality - he performs bends and twists his body into a form of dance as he manipulates the electronics with his feet." Review by Chorlton radiophonic workshop Dec 20 2008

Sept Short North West tour of "an evening of instability" by stumble dance circus. see www.stumbledancecircus.com

June I played at the white nights festival in Tel Aviv and ran various workshops.Here's a review of the gig.

"There was no shortage of humor in the following performances by British performer, guitarist, vocalist and occasional dancer Daniel Weaver and the Israeli dance troupe, Octet. Weaver used his guitar, body and vocals in an associative and intuitive manner, quoting pop songs, including a dramatic version of Tom Jones' “Delilah,” adding his flowing thoughts while manipulating skeletal and strange sounds from the guitar with a set of pedals and effects, but always communicating and commenting on the dancers' moves with his own spastic ones. This kind of kinetic collective improvisation was quite remarkable in its natural flow and continuing series of surprising interactions between Weaver and the dancers, until he decided to join the dancers."

Eyal Hareuveni http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30147

Last year's news

March/April 08 I worked again with Lindsey Butcher / Gravity and Levity (with choreographer Charlotte Vincent) on a new aerial dance show called Shift.

"Stunning accompanying music was married to the magical movement." John Billington, Southern Daily Echo

Feb 08 I traveled to Istanbul to work on a show called Tersi Duz with Talin Buyukkurkian. Premiere in Belgium in February. I also ran a week of workshops for dancers and actors from the State Theatre troupe and students at Bilgi University.

November/December'07 Finished a successful tour of Ireland with echo echo dance company from in a new show called Consequences. Read review See Echo Echo

August performing RESONANCE with Echo Echo in Edinburgh, Bucharest and we returned to the Ramalla Contemporary Dance Festival. The show was directed by Wolfgang Hoffmann and features songs by Roger Quigley

December/January I was working in Tel Aviv, developing cross disciplinary workshops. "Using a musical approach to understand the stage". The work is tailored to each group and caters for musicians dancers, actors, choreographers, directors, etc. My method covers rhythm, listening and body work to help groups work together and understand each other's disciplines.

I also put some time into developing cabaret material and working on a solo performance about birds and birdsong collecting (both performed at Void gallery in Derry).

Sorry, but no aLECTRO_eCOUSTIC events are planned.

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Thanks to all those involved

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