Open Residencies — Don't Look, Spaceman Development Residency

Don’t Look, Spaceman is an intergalactic dance-in-space made with, and for, young audiences aged 10+. Drawing on Dan Brown’s experience as a young queer, working class person, Don’t Look, Spaceman uses humour and pathos to explore themes of class, self-esteem, resilience and belonging, and questions the patriarchal constraints placed on young people just when they are trying to find their place in the world.

The Cove Park Residency, funded by Creative Scotland Open Fund, brings together the core creative team: Dan Brown (choreographer & performer), Emma Lewis-Jones (choreographer & dance dramaturg), Ben Fletcher (sound designer) and Tanya McLaughlin (producer), for focused development of the production.

The residency will give the team valuable time away from the practical demands of production to experiment, talk, walk, reflect and think collectively about the next stage of the work and its future life.

Courtesy of Tanya McLaughlin

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Dan Brown

Dan Brown is a queer, working-class dance artist, theatre maker and practitioner from Blackburn, West Lothian, now living in Glasgow. His practice is based in dance and theatre making, utilising persona and popular iconography to contextualise meaning and mediate his own autobiography, opening up the micro to relate to the macro. Dan has worked on […]

Open Residency

Emma Lewis-Jones

Emma Lewis-Jones (LJ) works across performance in various capacities; choreography, dance dramaturgy and facilitation. Her training in choreography and fine art underpin her creative practice today, which talks to the aesthetics of emergency, queering ritual and grief. Her current choreographic research is concerned with the limitations and failures of unison as a foundational dance modality, […]

Open Residency

Ben Fletcher

Ben Fletcher is a Glasgow-based composer and sound designer. His music features electronic sound design with ambient, IDM, glitch and post-industrial influences. He creates audiovisual work, live performance and compositions for contemporary theatre and dance.

Open Residency

Tanya McLaughlin

Tanya McLaughlin is an Edinburgh-based independent producer working across theatre, dance, circus and performance. Her practice focuses on supporting artists to develop ambitious new work, creating the partnerships, resources and space that allow ideas to evolve from early exploration through to production and presentation. She is particularly interested in collaborative processes and in supporting work […]

Open Residency

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