DAEDALUS THEATRE COMPANY WAS SET UP TO CREATE SOCIALLY-ENGAGED, RESEARCH BASED THEATRE WORK. WE DO THIS THROUGH CREATING PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCES AND PARTICIPATIVE COMMUNITY PROJECTS ? ALWAYS DEALING WITH ISSUES OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
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At Daedalus, we bring people together to create innovative, socially engaged work that explores big ideas through diverse voices, cross-disciplinary art forms, and multiple perspectives.
Based in Tower Hamlets, East London, we are a queer-led charity committed to accessibility, equity, and ecological thinking. We provide an open, democratic space where arts practitioners and communities, including Bengali and Jewish groups, collaborate through workshops, performances, and artist development.
With 14 years of experience, strong local partnerships, and a leadership team reflecting East London’s diversity, we push creative boundaries, fostering meaningful co-creation that empowers both professional artists and community members.
Our work currently has two main focuses:
Dysbiosis: a multistrand, cross-disciplinary project that brings together LGBTQ+, global majority and working-class communities to explore our society's relationship with nature.
East: a community storytelling and music project, which we've been running for 11 years for the people of East London, helping people learn stories and songs from each other's cultures and develop storytelling and performance skills. This includes an online archive.
We also offer a range of other workshops, as well as CPD sessions on sustainability and environmental justice for the performing arts sector.
A Creative Nature Workshop for Dysbiosis at the Eco Pavillion, Mile End Park.
Developing the performance strand of Dysbiosis at Queesn Theatre, Hornchurch.
The East storytelling project at Rich Mix
East Music open session at Poplar Union.
Past projects include the immersive, testimonial-based theatre piece A Place at the Table, made with Burundian refugees, and Mobile Incitement, a gig theatre performance exploring protest songs, using testimony from local communities and featuring local guest artists. Find out more about these projects and the rest of our work here.