Eddie Ladd is a

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television presenter and leading dance and performance artist.

Early life and education

Eddie Ladd's birth name is Gwenith Owen.Gareth Bicknell
"Avant-garde Eddie is one of the Ladds; Gareth Bicknell gets to grips with the real and imaginary world of Eddie Ladd"
'' Daily Post'' (Liverpool), 27 September 2003. She grew up on a farm near Cardigan, West Wales. Subsequently she studied Drama and Music at

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. She graduated in 1985."Net dancing award for Eddie"
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, she registered her name as Eddie Ladd because "it sounded quite snappy".

Career

From 1989 she was the "controversial presenter" of the Welsh language television music show ''

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. She also fronted ''

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. Ladd was a member of the anarchic performance company, Brith Gof, for ten years. She toured with them internationally across Europe and South America. She has created her own works and projects since the early 1990s. Her solo show, Club Luz, won an award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival."Triumph for Welsh dancer"
'' WalesOnline'', 23 August 2003. Retrieved 2013-05-21. In 2005 she was chosen by the British Council to represent the best of Welsh theatre at the Edinburgh Festival, together with No Fit State Circus and Volcano Theatre. In 2009 Ladd created ''Ras Goffa Bobby Sands/The Bobby Sands Memorial Race'', a 50-minute theatrical piece about the Irish hunger striker, Bobby Sands. The play, staged on a giant running machine, toured Wales. The performance left Wales, with '' The Independent'' reviewing her appearance at 'The Place', London. The audio content is in English and Welsh, reflecting Ladd's personal agenda which the reviewer says "at a London performance on an Irish subject, it felt like a different argument". Though the verbal content is difficult to hear, "the movement is strong. Ladd is a wiry, athletic performer, dogged and driven.".

Awards and recognition

* NESTA Fellowship (2001) * Edinburgh Festival Total Theatre Award (2003), for physical and visual theatre. * Best Dance Artist, The Wales Theatre Awards (2016).The Winners!
, Wales Theatre Awards. Retrieved 7 February 2016.

References

External links

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