THIS is dance, Jim, but maybe not as you know it.
The multi-award winning Tom Dale Company combines movement, light, sound and energy to put the body at the centre of digital interaction.
Choreographer and Artistic director Tom Dale works with a team of creative experts to combine his own choreography with a passion for digital technology, sound and vision to create inventive dance productions such as I Infinite, Digitopia, Refugees of the Septic Heart, Step Sonic.
It is fast, mesmerising and features live performance and vocals by the “superlative dancer” (Guardian) Jemima Brown.digital projection by Barret Hodgson and an immersive score from British music producer ITAL TEK.
Tom explained: “There has been no greater contributing factor to the evolution of dance over the last 25 years as the emergence and democratisation of electronic dance music. Endlessly used by choreographers in the rehearsal studio but not often reaching the stage.
“For Sub:Version we’re using tracks from Wen’s Ephem:era album in which he creates the outlines and forms of instrumental grime nuggets – brief samples of mood rather than full explorations he creates an impression without filling them thereby providing space for dance to collaborate with these structures. The music presents an opportunity to bring the world and sub-genres of electronic music and the purer response to that to the theatre.”
The show takes place at the Yvonne-Arnaud theatre in Guildford on Tuesday, May 2, from 7.30pm.Tickets from £22, with multi-buy discounts and concessions available.
For more information and to book tickets, visit: Yvonne-Arnaud.co.uk. Alternatively, contact the Box Office on 01483 44 00 00.
