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@danielweaver.co.uk

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Brief news

Sept Short North West tour of "an evening of instability" by stumble dance circus.

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

March/April 08 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

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

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

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.

The old website is down but click the symbol to see some archive pages.

Thanks to all those involved

and please keep me informed of interesting events.