Find out more about the Nobel Prize winning author ahead of EUROPEANS: GÜNTER GRASS at Rich Mix on Weds 26 Feb, where we’ll be joined by Kneehigh Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble to discuss their productions of The Tin Drum.

Artistic Director Josephine Burton reflects on a week’s residency in the wild Scottish highlands, starting a journey towards a new Dash production.

Whether you’re an Eliot fan or a newcomer to her work, we’ve compiled some lesser-known facts about this fascinating and iconic writer.

This month we mark our 100th Café in EUROPEANS: Dora Maar, Wednesday 29 January 2020, 7pm at Rich Mix London.

Artistic Director Josephine Burton reflects on the highlights and the role of the café for the future.

It's been an incredible year at Dash Arts, with 12 Dash Cafés, 2 Residences at Latitude Festival and the Great Get Together, 7 gigs and 4 major productions in development.

In November 2019, Associate Producer Cristina Catalina was invited to Mestizo Arts Festival to share ideas, see work and explore ways in which we can all connect and champion diversity on the continent (even after Brexit…)

Director Tim Supple was recently in China attending the Dalianshan International Theatre Festival in Sichuan, followed by RnD in Beijing for his production Dream of the Red Chamber.

This October saw my 8th or 9th visit to WOMEX – this time held in its apparently northernmost location in Tampere, Finland.

January 2017: This month we returned to the great poet and writer Velimir Khlebnikov, this time with events in London.

Our work continues to build an ensemble of 11 extraordinary musicians and composers from across the Post Soviet States.

Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple developed new work that dramatised the experience of the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union and the post Soviet years in the region, with text by leading Ukrainian writer Maksym Kurochkin.

Commissioned by Brighton Festival we are assembling a creative team and new ensemble of classically trained artists from across the post Soviet States to create a new theatrical piece of music; part composed, part devised and part improvised.

Commissioned by Luminato Festival, Toronto, Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple adapted the Arabic folk classic into six hours of erotic, violent, philosophical, surreal and funny theatre; written by the Lebanese author Hanan Al Shaykh.

In 2008, aware of his own North African heritage, we asked Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui if he would like to work with us as part of our Arabic Series. Larbi embraced the challenge, turning the myth of the Tower of Babel, which he set out to build with Antony Gormley.

Commissioned by the National Theatre, Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple worked on Firdowsi’s epochal work telling the narrative of the Iranian nation from the dawn of time.

Artistic Director Josephine Burton worked with Arabic rappers from across the region to make new lyrics and beats inspired by the soaring epic pre-Islamic poems of the Mu'allaqat.

Commissioned by Leicester’s spectacular new Curve theatre to produce Shakespeare’s bitter-sweet comedy of exile and homelessness, Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple undertook extensive research here at home into our immensely rich and diverse acting community for his production of As You Like It.

Commissioned by Roundhouse, London, Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple returned to India and on to the major centres of China, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba.

We worked with over forty-five school students across five London faith schools: Gur Nank Sikh School, Southall (Hillingdon), Islamia Girls’ School Brondesbury (Camden), King Solomon High School…

Commissioned by the British Council, Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple travelled to ten major cities in India and Sri Lanka working with actors, musicians and performers in the development of our internationally acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s most joyous play.