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This website illustrates some of my musical activities working as a composer/performer.

Use these links to see other CV pages grouped by discipline.

Brief news

In 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

In 2008 I worked again with Lindsey Butcher / Gravity and Levity (with choregrapher Charlotte Vincent) on a new aerial dance show called Shift.

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

I am also undertaking some research into creative teaching methods for Creative Partnerships Manchester Salford. This involves artists with Learning Disabilities working in mainstream schools.

In feb I travelled to Istanbul to work on a show called Tersi Duz with Talin Buyukkurkian. Premiere in Belgium in December. I also ran a week of workshops for dancers and actors.

Last year's news

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 or go to YOUTUBE CLIP

I have been 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

Last 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).

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