The Big Draw Festival | Drawing with Light

Camden Council in partnership with Camden Market 

Internationally acclaimed dancers will join us to celebrate Camden High Street’s pedestrianisation scheme and with performances at Camden Market Hawley Wharf. 

Directed by leading choreographer David Blake, dancers and participants will respond to the populated street and canalside architecture as day turns to dusk. 

Light offers the potential for expressive, fluid and dramatic mark-making – scribing space and place, leaving permanent or temporary impressions. Lighting technologies, coordinated with sounds, music and voices drawn from Camden’s recent and past histories, will follow body movement and dance through street levels, steps, and canalside terraces. 

The performances, which will be programmed as part of Camden’s Black History Season, will follow presentations and master class workshops with young people in local venues led by David Blake.