dan dunton and nelson
Who we are Emma Dunton and Roger Nelson are independent producers, project managers and consultants each with over twenty years of experience across a range of art-forms.
As well as continuing to work individually on a broad cross-section of arts projects and events, since 2008 we have joined forces to create dan - a new partnership in arts management.
Our partnership means we can offer the arts sector our own unique combination of expertise. And we also have the flexibility to take on larger projects with additional colleagues. Working in this way, we can offer creative producing, project management, and consutlancy, as well as access to arts marketing, PR and technical production management via third party specialists. We have built up excellent relationships with some of the best professionals in their fields.
The bulk of our experience lies in theatre - from classical to experimental; text-based to devised; solo studio work to large scale site specific shows - but we have also produced festivals and site-specific cross-arts events, and also work regularly in both music and dance.
What We Do Producing and Project Management – from conception to execution:
- creative and practical producing, creative programming, budgeting, fund-raising, event management
- marketing, PR, touring and technical production via third party specialists
Projects for 2010 include theatre producing with Cambridge-based Hoipolloi, and Tamasha project development with dance companiesh2danceandGauri,and tour management forStan Won't Dance and Russell Maliphant Company.
Our background includes project management and producing for creative events including
- theatre projects from small-scale and larger touring productions, site specific projects, large scale public events
- festivals in music and theatre, including international and experimental work
- contemporary and classical dance and dance-theatre/physical theatre
- We are also experienced producers and facilitators with individual artists, and for collaborations between artists and arts organisations, as well as consultants in change management and strategic development.
In 2009, the dan team produced the hugely successful Various Voices Festival, a four-day international choral festival with over 1800 participating musicians and over 60 events taking place across Southbank Centre. The concerts were presented by both amateur and professional choirs, and this unique festival was run by a combination of a professional team and a large body of volunteers. Various Voices was awarded the Cultural Olympiad Inspire mark.
Special projects include the Paines Plough premiere of the new play Dallas Sweetmanby Sebastian Barry which was produced in Canterbury Cathedral, and for Stan Won’t Dance, project management of Off the Wall, a large-scale outdoor dance event at Southbank Centre commissioned to mark the re-opening of the Festival Hall.
As consultants we recently completed a report for Arts Council Englandon New Writing in smaller scale Theatre 2003-2008, with our colleague Hetty Shand, published on the Arts Council's website artscouncil.org.uk/publications
Before working for themselves, Roger was Executive Producer of Graeae, the leading theatre company of disabled artists, and Emma Dunton was Executive Director of award-winning ATC, premiering and touring international new writing.
dan is associated with the marketing and promotions company makesthree, run by Sam McAuley, Mark Slaughter and Ben Jefferies.
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