Thick & Tight (GB)

Daniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry are London-based freelance dancers who have created an avant-garde cabaret, “Thick and Tight” in which they enact imagined encounters between well-known figures

Daniel trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, graduating in 2009. In 2010 He formed the collective dance company “Impermanance Dance Theatre” with a group of artists and friends while performing with other companies such as Rambert Dance Company, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, English National Ballet, Corali Dance Company, National Dance Company Wales and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Daniel has also worked with literature and text (helping to devise and perform a two-man version of Samuel Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with the actress Fiona Shaw; using the poetry and music of Gustav Mahler’s Rucker-Leider for the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht in Germany; using Oliver Sachs´ Awakenings for his 80th Birthday celebration in NY; using a selection of Cocteau’s plays for Cocteau Voices at the Royal Opera House’s.)

Eleanor also trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and gained a Master in Dance Performance from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire, touring with Transitions Dance Company. Eleanor is an associate artist of “Impermanence Dance Theatre” but also creates her own work, both solo and in collaboration with other artists such as Daniel Hay-Gordon and David Sheppeard.

“Thick & Tight are looking to make relevant, humane and political work that still grumbles in the stomach of entertainment; almost avant-garde borderline offensive beyond porn.” - Daniel & Eleanor