Eddie Ladd

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Eddie Ladd(born 18 April [1] 1964) is a Welsh television presenter and leading dance and performance artist.

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Early life and education

Eddie Ladd's birth name is Gwenith Owen. [2] She grew up on a farm near Cardigan, West Wales. Subsequently she studied Drama and Music at Aberystwyth University. [2] She graduated in 1985. [3]

When Owen joined the acting union, Equity, she registered her name as Eddie Ladd because "it sounded quite snappy". [2]

Career

From 1989 she was the "controversial presenter" [3] of the Welsh language television music show Fideo 9 on S4C. She also fronted The Slate (in English) on BBC2. [2]

Ladd was a member of the anarchic performance company, Brith Gof, for ten years. [2] She toured with them internationally across Europe and South America. [3]

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. [4] 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. [5]

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. [6] 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.". [7]

Awards and recognition

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Gwenith Owen [@GwenithOwen] (18 April 2020). "So mam wedi bod getre ers Mawrth 12fed. Mam: Wel, sda fi ddim byd i ti ar dy fyrthdei. Fi: Gwna Welsh cakes Mam: Reit 'te *ar ei thraed*" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Net dancing award for Eddie", BBC Wales News, 3 July 2001. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Triumph for Welsh dancer", WalesOnline , 23 August 2003. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Hannah Jones, "Flying the arts flag for Wales", Western Mail , 14 July 2005. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  6. ↑ Karen Price, "Keep on running", WalesOnline, 2 October 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  7. ↑ Zoe Anderson, "The Bobby Sands Memorial Race, The Place, London", The Independent, 13 April 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  8. ↑ The Winners! [usurped] , Wales Theatre Awards. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
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