Dan specialises in heart-full films.
Documentary, dance/art films or promos, Dan brings his artist eye and choreographic sensibilities to every project.
Crafting heart-full films, rooted in what it means to be human.
Choreomania
Written and performed by the students of Ormiston Victory Academy with Phil Ormerod.
Direction, camera, choreo & editing: Dan Canham
Composed by Dom Lawton
Vocals: Nuala Honan
Special thanks to Mr Ormerod, Ms Lowe, Ms Curson, Ms Dalgleish and all at Ormiston Victory Academy. Ginny Scholey and all at Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Andy Field. Laura Dannequin.
The Lost & Found Films of Norfolk is commissioned and produced by Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Curated by Forest Fringe. Supported by Norwich Freeman's charity.
Showreel
some picks from videography work 2021-23
Soundtrack : Benji Bower
Work included:
Souls & Cells: Akeim Toussaint Buck and Crystal Zillwood
Ring My Bell cabaret: Impermanence Dance Theatre
Terra Coda: Terra Coda Collective
Metamorphosis: Crystal Zillwood
The Land's Heart Is Greater Than Its Map: Olivia Furber & Ramzi Maqdisi
HABITAT: Doris Uhlich (additional footage Aayush Dudhiya
This is Costessey
Travelling Light Theatre: St. Luke’s Lunches
Creative Youth Network music video
Mayfest 2022 opening party
Birthmarked: Brook Tate (additional footage: Jack Offord
As British As a Watermelon: Mandla Rae
Dmango artist portrait
MUTI
This is Costessey
I spent two weeks in January 2022 working with some truly inspiring young people from Ormiston Victory Academy in Norwich.
We created a portrait of the area in which they live and go to school together, as part of Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
Joyous times. Bringing the videography, devising and choreography all together.
Music: Benji Bower
Additional direction: Phil Ormerod
to bend & not break
‘to bend and not break’ is a dance film I choreographed and filmed, in collaboration with members of the Interdisciplinary dance performance MA at Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
A ritual of release, a journey from sorrow and hopelessness to community and congregation. Using dance as an excavation, 'to bend & not break' flows between states of grief and joy to celebrate the role of dance as a communal healing force.
Mayfest 2024
Here’s a short round up of all of the incredible festival produced by MAYK in Bristol. An absolute pleasure to film all of these shows and put this together.
Souls & Cells.
Trailer I made for this exquisite show.
Akeim Toussaint Buck and Crystal Zillwood direction and performance
Otis Jones sound
Barnaby Booth light
Audrey Mae costume
João Maio producer
Eva Martinez dramaturge
Rosalyn Maynard, Somatic Movement Mentor
Janet Smith MBE, Choreography Mentor
Supported using public funding through Arts Council England.
Becoming Gertrude
A little thing I put together charting the course from rehearsals to performance.
The one and only Roseanna Anderson of Impermanence Dance Theatre and her solo incorporating Gertrude Stein’s poem ‘If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso’.
Part of a wonderful day at The Mount Without, experimenting and playing with performance and film. Led by the brilliant Nick Young and his new company MUTI.
Fenland Elegy
A short and stirring dance film shot at sunset in the Fens of East Anglia, Fenland Elegy is a collaboration between filmmaker Dan Canham, Krump dancers Katie Boag and Ash Goosey and composer Benji Bower (Terra Collective).
The film combines heart-rending symphonic music with the immense technical and expressive form of Krump dance to lament the passing of a landscape.
Made as part of a residency through Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
