Daniel Squire was born in Halifax, UK. He studied dance at White Lodge and at the Rambert school, concurrent with working as a percussionist in several semi-professional orchestras in Yorkshire and London. He then worked as a dancer with Michael Clark and Matthew Hawkins, as well as appearing as Tadzio in Britten’s Death In Venice at Glyndebourne. After moving to the Big Apple, Daniel worked for many years with Merce Cunningham, performing around the world in theatres including Palais Garnier & Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Staatsoper unter den Linden & Schiller Theater (Berlin), the Roundhouse, the Barbican, Tate Modern (London), Festival Theatre (Edinburgh), Kennedy Center (DC), New York State Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Rose Theater & City Center (NYC); with musicians including Radiohead, John Paul Jones, Sigur Rós, Takehisa Kosugi & Sonic Youth. He has also been a core member (actor, videographer, musician) of Marisela La Grave's inter-media group Magnetic Laboratorium  since 2003. He continues to lives in NYC and works as a dance teacher (for internationally acclaimed dance companies, including Rambert & Random; and at top schools including Brown University, Columbia College, Chapman University, London Contemporary, Northern Contemporary, and at the Merce Cunningham Studio in NYC), videographer, film-maker, editor and actor.

Current / Upcoming:—

• Daniel will perform alongside Aye Aye Rabbit at Littlefield in Brooklyn on June 6th.

• Daniel will teach a weekend Cunningham Technique™ workshop and Cunningham repertory at Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA on May 19th and 20th.

• Daniel is going to be heavily involved in the creation of the exhibit Dancing around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibit will run from late October, 2012, to mid January, 2013.

• This Winter into Spring, Daniel is teaching dance to teenagers, as a guest at The Dalton School in NYC.

1. •Daniel will teach dance technique, repertory, and composition at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute for two weeks in June.
   

1. •Daniel is mentoring the project Quartet, with Choreographer/Dancers Jack Webb and Rosalind Masson. Remote, individual work is happening in residencies this spring and summer. A two-week residency will happen at Dance Base in Edinburgh in July with Squire, Masson and Webb all present.
   

Recent Activities:—

May, 2012:—

Daniel performed his latest dance work FORCE L'YAKOT, along with Ellen Cornfield, at the Gershwin Hotel in Manhattan. He also performed in Cori Kresge's piece Receptivity on the same programme.

April, 2012:—

Daniel performed in the Atrium and Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, in Paulina Olowska's Alphabet.

April, 2012:—

Charles Atlas' film of Merce Cunningham's Ocean, which was shot in a granite quarry in Minnesota in September of 2008 screened for one week as part of the Whitney Biennial.  The ninety-minute epic dance by Merce Cunningham, with Music by David Tudor and Andrew Culver (after John Cage). For the NYTimes review, click here.

March/April, 2012:—

Daniel taught at Brown University, preparing the students for their end-of-year performances of a Merce Cunningham MinEvent.

2000—March 2012:—

Daniel taught regularly at the Merce Cunningham Studio for twelve years, until the closure of the studio. He will continue to teach elsewhere.

March, 2012:—

Daniel performed in 4 Walls/Doubletoss Interludes alongside other former Merce Cunningham Dance Company dancers & esteemed Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Jee Leong Koh, in her blog Song of a Reformed Headhunter, wrote: "The dancers were not all equal. Some, I thought, were slotting their bodies and limbs into shapes they first saw in space with their eyes. Daniel Squire, who danced as a full-time senior dancer for Cunningham when he was alive, was different. He fully inhabited the dance. There was physical intelligence as well as strength in his movements. Conviction too."

March, 2012:—

Daniel taught modern dance to students at Playwrights' Horizons Theater School/NYU

February, 2012:—

Daniel took part in a four-part workshop with directors Daniel Fish, Michael Sexton, David Herskowitz and directors of Fiasco.

December, 2011:—

Paris premiere of Charles Atlas' film of Merce Cunningham's Ocean, which was shot in a granite quarry in Minnesota in September of 2008. The ninety-minute epic dance by Merce Cunningham, with Music by David Tudor and Andrew Culver (after John Cage).

November, 2011:—

Daniel taught Cunningham Technique to Australia's Sydney Dance Company, during their season at the Joyce Theater in New York this November.

November, 2011:—

Daniel was the videographer for Stefanie Nelson's dancework Prolegomena at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn.

November, 2011:—

Daniel taught at Chapman University in Orange, California, for one week, prior to the students' performances of a Merce Cunningham MinEvent (which he set on them in January, 2011. (See below for details).

October, 2011:—

Daniel performed with John Kelly at New York Live Arts (Oct 19th—29th) and at  MASS MoCA (Oct 15th) in Find My Way Home.

October 8th, 2011:—

London Premiere Screening (at the Barbican) of Charles Atlas' film Ocean, which was shot in a granite quarry in Minnesota in September of 2008. The ninety-minute epic dance by Merce Cunningham, with Music by David Tudor and Andrew Culver (after John Cage).

October, 2011:—

Daniel set a Merce Cunningham MinEvent on students at Brown University. Performances were October 14th—16th. For an article about the project, click here.

August, 2011:—

Daniel performed with IMDT in Actions as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from August 5th—21st, 2011. Four star  **** reviews from The Herald and from The Skinny plus three stars *** from Broadway Baby.

June—July, 2011:—

Daniel took part in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts' two-month intensive course Acting Shakespeare which ran throughout June and July in London and culminated in a performance of Love's Labour's Lost, directed by Nick Hutchinson, in which he played Don Adriano de Armado.

May, 2011:—

Daniel taught Cunnigham Technique at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and at Rambert Dance Company in May, 2011.

April 16th, 2011:—

Daniel acted (supporting role) in Jill Awbrey's feature-length film Pretty Broken Things. Currently in post-production, the film is intended for the 2012 film festival circuit.

April 11th, 2011:—

Daniel's first showing of excerpts from his new play I, Edward II took place at The Barrow Group.

April 4th, 2011:—

Baryshnikov Arts Center screened eyeSpace (2006) a dance work by Merce Cunningham. eyeSpace features a set by artist Daniel Arsham.

March, 2011:—

Daniel performed in Carla & Lewis: The Ecocide Project which opened on  March 10th — directed by Josh Hoglund and Fritz Ertl, written by Shonni Enelow, with Una Chaudhuri as Dramaturg. It was performed at Incubator Arts Project in the East Village (Manhattan).

February 7th, 2011:—

Baryshnikov Arts Center screened Pond Way (1998), (along with Sounddance); both of which are dance works by Merce Cunningham. Pond Way features music by Brian Eno.

January 10th, 2011:—

New York Premiere Screening of Charles Atlas' film Ocean, which was shot in a granite quarry in Minnesota in September of 2008. The ninety-minute epic dance by Merce Cunningham, with Music by David Tudor and Andrew Culver (after John Cage).

January 3rd — January 14th, 2011

Daniel set a Merce Cunningham MinEvent on Dance Major students at Chapman University, in Orange, California. The performances of this work will be in April and November of 2011. There are two casts, with a total of 26 dancers—each performing Cunningham work for their first time. The Chapman MinEvent is a 29-minute work, featuring sections from Merce's works Scramble (1967), Signals (1970), Un Jour ou Deux (1973), Canfield (1969), Changing Steps (1973) and ROARATORIO (1983). It will be accompanied by compositions from John Cage and others, to be performed live by music students of Chapman University.

For information on Chapman's dance department, click here.

For more on Merce Cunningham and minEvents, click here.