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 ANDREW DAWSON / Image: Quatre Mains / Photographer: Jan Stradtmann

ANDREW DAWSON

Physical/visual theatre|Dance theatre|Text-based: Light

SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small

PERMANENT STAFF
Director
Andrew Dawson
Producer
Sara Sheppard

ARTISTIC POLICY
Andrew Dawson aims to create visual and physical dance theatre that reaches beyond verbal dialogue.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Performance stripped down to ultimate simplicity, and continuing to generate strong, direct emotions and laughter in a breathtaking intimacy.
The Financial Times (Quatre mains)
Astonishing, almost unbearably moving.
The New York Times (Absence and Presence)
You have to see it to believe it.
Daily Mail (Space Panorama)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Absence and Presence
A deeply intimate and touching production in which dancer and mime artist, Andrew Dawson, explores – not without wry humour – the death of his father.
Runs 60 mins, solo work, 3 on road
Space Panorama
A sparkling recreation of the Apollo 11 moon landing told with hands on a table top. A constantly entrancing documentary of the entire mission.
Runs 26 mins, solo work, 2 on road
Quatre Mains
An intimate dance for four hands. An evocative visual poem of finely tuned movement and gesture. With a rich and diverse soundtrack ranging from Britten to The Jazz Passengers.
Runs 60 mins, 2 performers, 3 on road

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008
USA: Quatre Mains
2008 USA: Space Panorama

TOURING AVAILABILITY
March 2009 to 2011