Dakin may refer to:

in people:

• Dakin of Sennar (1568-1585/6), Sudanese ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar
• Christine Dakin, dancer, teacher and director
• Glenn Dakin (born 1960), British cartoonist and author
• Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880-1952), English chemist
• Henry H. Dakin, provincial politician from Alberta, Canada
• James H. Dakin (1806-1852), American architect
• Janet Wilder Dakin (1910-1994), American philanthropist and zoologist
• Jonathan Dakin (1973-), English cricketer
• Nicholas Dakin (1955-), British politician
• Tim Dakin (1958-), General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society and Bishop-elect of Winchester
• William John Dakin (1883–1950), Australian botanist

in other:

• Astatine, radioactive chemical element whose proposed name was Dakin
• Dakin (company), manufacture of plush toys
• Dakin, Iran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran
• Dakin Building, office building in Brisbane, California, United States
• Dakin reaction, chemical reaction of phenolic aldehydes (or ketones) with hydrogen peroxide
• Dakin-West reaction, chemical reaction that transforms an amino-acid into an amino-ketone using an acid anhydride and a base

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Christine Dakin, dancer - teacher - director, a foremost exponent of the Martha Graham repertory and technique, is known for her performances of Ms. Graham's roles and for those created for her by Martha Graham and artists such as Robert Wilson, Twyla Tharp and Martha Clarke. Performing in the principal theaters of the world, partnered by renowned artists such Rudolf Nureyev^[1] and filmed in the repertory, she was chosen by Graham for the company in 1976. Dakin became an Associate Artistic Director in 1997 and was named Artistic Director with Terese Capucilli in 2002.^[2] Leading the company to its rebirth, they are credited with bringing the artistic excellence and repertory of the Company to a level not seen since Martha Graham’s death and were named Artistic Directors Laureate.

Dakin was honored by the dance community with a “Bessie” Performance Award (2003) and the Dance Magazine Award (1994), was a Fulbright Senior Scholar (1999) and recipient of two Rockefeller-US-Mexico Fund for Culture grants (1998, 2001) for choreography, research and teaching. At Harvard University she was the Evelyn Green Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2007/08), Visiting Lecturer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2006, 2009), offering the University’s first credit course in dance, and was the “Learning from Performers” guest artist (2001). Educated at the University of Michigan, Ms. Dakin is the recipient of the University of Michigan Alumni Award (2001), an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Shenandoah University (2001), and an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad de Colima, Mexico (2007).

On the faculty of The Juilliard School since 1993, she is currently faculty at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater and the Ailey School in New York, and is known internationally as a teacher and guest artist; since 1981 maintaining a special relationship with the Mexican dance community as teacher, choreographer with the Ballet Nacional de México, Universidad de Colima’s Ballet Folklórico and contemporary company Univerdanza,^[3] and companies in Yucatán and Oaxaca. Her choreography in collaboration with Mexican composers and scenic designers has premiered in Mexico City and the International Festival St. Luis Potosí.

Dakin is currently creating a film and interactive DVD, La Voz del Cuerpo/The Body Speaks, her personal poetic of Martha Graham's dance; with an international collaboration of dancers and musicians exploring the revolutionary dance technique at the core of Graham's art and the creative life of the dancer. She is dancer and founding member of Buglisi Dance Theatre ^[4] (1993), of danz.fest (Italy 2008) and Invernadero Danza (Mexico 2009), and with Radcliffe Institute colleague, physicist Jane Wang, is investigating with artists and scientists: "Locomotion/Emotion; perception of complex movement and the dynamics of beauty"^[5].

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• Christine Dakin

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Dakin Matthews (born November 7, 1940) is an American actor with a long history of work in film, television and theater. He is also a playwright, director, and theatrical scholar.

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Matthews was born in Oakland, California. He initially aspired to become a Roman Catholic priest, studying in San Francisco and then at Gregorian University in Rome in the 1960s. However, his is growing interest in drama led him to the Juilliard School, where he taught, among others, Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone. He acted and taught at the American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) in San Francisco where Annette Bening was one of his students. He is also an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California.

In the 1980s, settling permanently in Los Angeles, Matthews began guest-starring in television series and appearing in films. He starred in series such as Down Home, Soul Man and, most successfully, The Jeff Foxworthy Show. He also has made many guest appearances on television, including Remington Steele, Dallas, Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, Just Shoot Me!, Star Trek: Voyager, The West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Charmed, The King of Queens (as Doug Heffernan (Kevin James)'s father Joe), NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives, House M.D., Two and a Half Men and Carnivàle.

Matthews has appeared in more than twenty feature films, including Nuts, Like Father Like Son, Clean and Sober, Thirteen Days, Child's Play 3, and Funny Farm and a number of television movies, including And the Band Played On, Baby M and White Mile. He is also a stage actor, most recently for his portrayals of C. S. Lewis in South Coast Repertory's Shadowlands as "Warwick" in Shakespeare's Henry IV at the Lincoln Center Theater, as "Undershaft" in Major Barbara for South Coast Repertory and as "The Fixer" in Water and Power for the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.

In 2010, Matthews joined the cast of the ABC soap opera General Hospital as Judge Peter Carroll, the judge in Sonny Corinthos' trial.

He is also a playwright, director, and theater scholar who has published books and articles on Shakespeare and translations of 17th-century Spanish theater. He has been a dramaturg on numerous theatrical productions, including the 2005 Broadway revival of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington and the 2003 revival of Henry IV, winning a Drama Desk Award Special Award for his adaptation of the latter.

Matthews was also Artistic Director of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and the California Actors Theatre; an Associate Artist of the Old Globe Theatre; and a founding member of the John Houseman's The Acting Company and the Antaeus Company.

Most recently, Matthews appeared in the 2011 summer season of The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park, performing as the Provost in Measure for Measure ^[1] and Lafew in All's Well That Ends Well.^[2] In 2011, his adaptation of The Capulets & The Montagues performed at the Andak Stage Company. This production won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Adaptation.

Matthews currently resides with his wife, director Anne McNaughton, in Los Angeles; they have four children.

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External links[link]

• Dakin Matthews at the Internet Movie Database
• Dakin Matthews at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)