30 Cecil Street
The first work from Still House, 30 Cecil Street, was a solo work that toured to over 40 cities in 10 countries including notable runs at Forest Fringe, Sadler's Wells and PuSh Festival Vancouver.
It took as its starting point The Limerick Athenaeum at 30 Cecil Street, also known as the Theatre Royal. The Royal is a building with a history that stretches back over 150 years. Within that time it has served as an art college, a political forum, a cinema, a bingo hall and a live space hosting gigs, club nights, theatre, opera and hypnotists among other things. Closed to the public since 1997, the insides were left to crumble and rot.
30 Cecil Street was dance-theatre piece made of fragments of memories, of wild nights and long disappeared communities. An eloquent and heartbreaking elegy to a lost and ruined theatre it evokes the life of a once-mighty building and asked what is left when a theatre closes its door to the public?
“★★★★★”
“Dan Canham raises ghosts in spine tingling dance-theatre piece ‘30 Cecil Street’… exquisitely crafted, thoughtful theatre. ★★★★”
Image: David Monteith-Hodge
Image: Will Hanke
Image: Camilla Cerea
Image: John Hunter @ RULER
Image: Camilla Greenwell
Credits:
Created and performed by Dan Canham.
30 Cecil Street was made with the support of Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts, Bristol Old Vic Ferment, Escalator Arts and BAC.
30 Cecil Street has played the following places: Bristol Old Vic / Belltable - Limerick / Battersea Arts Centre / The Junction - Cambridge / The Cube - Bristol / Pulse at the New Wolsey - Ipswich / Solstice at Cork Midsummer Festival / Forest Fringe - Edinburgh / Festival de Pontlevoy - France / Nightingale - Brighton / Parabola Arts Centre / Showtime at Riverside Studios - London / Norwich Playhouse / Exeter Pheonix / Snibston Century Theatre / Northampton Picturedrome / Dance4 - Nottingham / Dance City - Newcastle / Leeds Met and Studio Gallery at Northern Ballet / Forest Fringe at the Gate / caravan showcase / NoTaFe - Viljandi, Estonia / Kneehigh Asylum / Dublin Fringe Festival / PuSh festival, Vancouver / Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells - London / ICIA - Bath / Pavilion Dance - Bournemouth / Kinsale Arts Festival, Ireland / Brisbane Festival, Australia / Tanz in Winterthur, Switzerland / Zurich Tantzt, Switzerland/ Forest Fringe at Madrid Fringe / Aerowaves Spring Forward at Mercat des Flors, Barcelona / BMotion festival Bassano Del Grappa - Italy / Tanec Praha - Czech Republic / Forest Fringe Edinburgh 2016
“…a piece of great delicacy and understated beauty…a graceful and wonderfully atmospheric piece.”
“(Canham is) like a dowsing rod, his limbs flexing and his hands sculpting the air. ★★★★”