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Candoco Dance Company / Dan Daw Creative Projects Over and Over (and over again)

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A person in a wheelchair with arms raised, dressed in a reflective top and bold orange trousers, illuminated by dramatic beams of light.

About Over and Over (and over again)

This show is a beat-driven, 60-minute piece about rave through a disability lens. It explores rave as a feeling and as a practice to get free.

There is a screen for captions of the lyrics to the songs and a description of the musical tracks. Video footage is projected onto the curtain.

There is no spoken text in the show, but the lyrics of the songs and of the score by Guy Connelly are a storytelling element.

Caption Screen Text

This is a relaxed performance. Feel free to move around, tic, stim, come and go as you please from the space and make noise if you need to’ This screen is a caption screen. Lyrics from songs in the show will be displayed here along with descriptions of sound used.

A sparse, eerie soundscpe sets an ominous yet hypnotic ton
A dark and weighty bass line drops

Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in

A filtered version of the high energy, hardcore club anthem to give the effect of being outside a club.
The bass is thick and aggressive, with punchy and chaotic drums.

Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in
Not tonight, you’re not on the list
Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in
Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in
Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in
Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in

To wake up every morning
To feel the sun on my skin
To see it setting and dawning
I want to feel everything
I want to feel everything
To wake up every morning
To feel the sun on my skin
To see it setting and dawning
I want to feel everything
I want to feel everything
never too much, never being enough
never enough, never ever enough
never too much, never being enough
never enough, never ever enough
(Fuck you) Never too much
never being enough
(Fuck you) Never enough
never ever enough
Fuck you
I want to feel everything
Fuck you
I want to feel everything

A pop-tastic catchy dance athem. Synths bounce around the space with soaring female vocals
A high-energy, drum & bass anthem with soulful vocals and Latin-inspired rhythms

Twist it, Stomp it, Bounce it, Shake it
Cause you know the vibe is what you make it
Twist it, Stomp it, Bounce it, Shake it
Cause you know the vibe is what you make it
Twist it, Stomp it, Bounce it, Shake it
Cause you know the vibe is what you make it
Twist it, Stomp it, Bounce it, Shake it
Cause you know the vibe is what you make it
Shake your body up down stomp your feet now spin around,
let the rhythm take control as the beat is taking over your soul
Shake your body up down stomp your feet now spin around,
let the rhythm take control as the beat is taking over your soul
Shake your body up down stomp your feet now spin around,
let the rhythm take control as the beat is taking over your soul
Shake your body up down stomp your feet now spin around,
let the rhythm take control as the beat is taking over your soul

Hard, hard
gyal are locked in like dem man are hard Hard, hard
man are locked in like dem man are hard Hard, hard
gyal are locked in like dem man are hard Hard, hard
man are locked in like dem man are hard Hard, hard
gyal are locked in dem man are hard
man are locked in like dem man are hard everybody’s locked in like dem man are hard

Dark and intense dubstep style baseline with fast paced grime style vocals.

Hard, gyal are locked in like dem man are hard
man are locked in like dem man are hard
everybody’s locked in like dem man are hard
dem man are, dem man are, dem man are, dem
man are hard gyal are locked in like dem man are
man are locked in like dem man are
everybody’s locked in like dem man are hard
Hard, gyal are locked in like dem man are hard
man are locked in like dem man are hard
everybody’s locked in like dem man are hard
Hard, hard, gyal are locked in like dem man are hard
man are locked in like dem man are hard
everybody’s locked in like dem man are hard
Hard, hard, gyal are locked in like dem man are hard
man are locked in like dem man are hard
everybody’s locked in like dem man are hard

Conversations can’t be heard over the music
A low suspended drone. Slowly a gentle repetitive beat creeps in
A gentle and sustained combination of drone sounds along with the steady sounds of a heartbeat

Organ like sounds with a soulful vocal
A sub heavy bassline slides in creating a syncopated beat
A low-fi dreamy melody and fx soaked vocals that leads to a heavy four to the floor 90’s style R’n’B beat

A combination of ethereal drone sounds with an occasional sub heavy bassline

An emotive track that feels fluid and weightless, with a driving beat and haunting vocal drifting in a

Your eyes are the window to heaven
Your smile could heal a million souls
You’re the other half
that makes me whole
That makes me whole
Your eyes are the window to heaven
Your smile could heal a million souls
You’re the other half
that makes me whole

A rapid, intense breakbeat jungle track with a deep, rumbling bassline. Airy, atmospheric pads add and otherworldly contrast.

Don’t you want to go to my house of love
Don’t you want to spend some time?
My house of love
Don’t you want to come? Oooo baby
Don’t you want to stay a while?
Everybody needs to get away
From the pressures of the everyday
So take your time and ease your mind
In my house of loveeeeeee

Classic 90s house anthem, filled with infectious grooves and a joyful vocal
Vocal riffing

I wanna hold you oh yeah
I wanna squeeze you oh yeah
I wanna hold you oh yeah
In my house in my house in my house
Don’t you want to go to my house of love
Don’t you want to spend some time? My house of love
Don’t you want to come? Oooo baby
Don’t you want to stay a while?
Everybody needs to get away
From the pressures of the everyday
So take your time and ease your mind
In my house of loveeeeeee

Vocal riffing
Atmospheric drum & bass track with crisp, rolling beats, delicate chords, and dreamlike vocals.

Let’s stay here with me
Let go tonight
Let go tonight
Let’s stay here with me
Let’s stay here with me
Let go tonight

Slow, reflective piano notes with soaring string instruments. Gentle and beautiful

Artistic Team & Credits

Producing Company Candoco Dance Company
Commissioned Company Dan Daw Creative Projects
Co-Directors Dan Daw (Artistic Director at Dan Daw Creative Projects) & Stef O’Driscoll
Executive Director (at Dan Daw Creative Projects) & Studio Culture (Lead) Liz Counsell
Dancers and Collaborators Anna Seymour, Annie Edwards, James Olivo, Maiya Leeke and Temitope Ajose
Production Manager (Lead) Froud
Production Manager (Touring) Helen Mugridge
Rehearsal Director & Choreographic Consultant Amy Butler
Lighting Designer Nao Nagai
Composer Guy Connelly
Design Concept and Costume Design Concept Erin Guan
Design Realisation Froud
Costume Realisation Shanti Freed
Studio Access Support Worker Lottie Vallis

Candoco Dance Company
Co-Artistic Director Raquel Meseguer Zafe & Dominic Mitchell
Executive Director Melanie Precious
Head of Programme Lucie Mirkova
Head of Finance Liz Charman
Producer (Productions & Touring) Will Bridgland
Producer (Learning & Engagement), Access Coordinator Louisa Sutherland
Producer (Interim) Ellen Booth
Communications Manager Jasmin Fiori
General Manager Angie Goddard
Interim Access Officer Shyam Persaud

Funders
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.

This commission was also supported by Arts Council England, and Cockayne Grants for the Arts, held at The London Community Foundation.

Supported by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

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