Noboddaddy is an affecting large-scale dance and theatre ritual for a company of nine dancers and six musicians including the renowned folk singer and musician, Sam Amidon. While ‘Nobodaddy’ is the name of a destructive divinity who appears in several of William Blake’s notebook poems, Teaċ Daṁsa’s Nobodaddy is an ode to the peacemakers and the bringers of good things.
Funded by the Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon Open Call
Co-produced by An Droichead for Belfast 2024, Dublin Theatre Festival, the Abbey Theatre, and Sadlers Wells Theatre.
Then old Nobodaddy aloft
Farted & belchd & coughd
And said I love hanging & drawing & quartering
Every bit as well as war & slaughtering
— William Blake (1793)
Director and Choreographer.
Michael Keegan-Dolan
Lighting Design.
Adam Silverman
Costume Design.
Doey Lüthi
Sound Design.
Sandra Ní Mhathúna
Additional Sound Design and Electronics.
Jelle Roozenburg
Production Manager.
Violaine Crespin
Dancers.
Rachel Poirier, Amit Noy, Jimmy Southward, Aki Iwamoto, Ino Riga, Ryan O’Neill, Jovana Zelenovic, Holly Vallis, Will Thompson
Music Performed, Created and Arranged by.
Sam Amidon, Romain Bly, Flora Curzon, Jimmi Hueting, Mayah Kadish, Alice Purton and Jelle Roozenburg
