Press Release: Tom Dale Company - I Infinite - Autumn Tour 2018

[Jan McNulty]

 

TOM DALE COMPANY PRESENTS

 

I INFINITE

 

UK TOUR

 

4 October – 20 November

 

 

 

The real and the virtual synthesise in this mesmeric dance installation by award-winning British choreographer, Tom Dale. I INFINITE is a solo dance piece, performed in a white cube space with a digitally animated environment. A fascinating fusion of dance, music, art and design, it is due to embark on its first major UK tour this autumn. I INFINITE explores the interplay between dancer, audience and the digital space, probing the liminality at which point these aspects merge.

 

The audience is invited to move around the performance space to choose their own viewpoint, venturing close to the dancer or just sitting, transfixed, to watch the refined movement so often missed in more traditional theatre spaces. Inspired by the digital world’s quest to recreate life, graphic patterns slice through the space; glowing cubes fracture into a myriad of minuscule squares and pools of light hover in the air like oil on water.

 

“I was inspired by robotics, artificial intelligence and how the digital world is moving on an increasingly fast trajectory towards lifelike manifestations. How does the digital explore and master this physical world from its finite perspective? What would a robot or A.I. need to understand or learn in order to move in a human-like way.” Tom Dale

 

The Tom Dale Company (TDC) is one of the UK's leading contemporary dance companies. Combining dance, electronic music and digital media, TDC is a leader in the field, producing world-class work which is simultaneously bold, exciting and constantly evolving. The synergy between dance and the digital arts is the major artery pumping through TDC’s practice, its vision, through its collaborations with the digital arts, is to re-imagine dance.

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Notes to editors

 

I INFINITE is a collaboration between Tom Dale, Barret Hodgson and Maria Olga Palliani; performed by Jemima Brown | Maja Naomi Furnes; digital media artist Barret Hodgson; costume by Jane Taylor.

 

Tom Dale

Tom Dale graduated from Laban, winning the centre’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography. He danced with leading choreographers and companies, including Mathew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, before focusing on creating his own work and forming Tom Dale Company. It is here that Tom is able to pursue his artistic vision, bringing together artists to collaborate on bold, exciting, innovative projects that interrogate art in motion and have a particular synergy with the digital arts and electronic music.

As well as creating all of the company’s work to date, including critically acclaimed pieces Rise, I Infinite, Refugees of the Lost Heart and Digitopia, Tom has created A New Chimera for Fertile Ground, Dark Clouds are Smouldering into Red with Sinfonia Viva, Subterrania which was part of In the Dust for 2Faced Dance Company, Dance Please produced by TPO/Crying Out Loud/Theatre Is and I am a believer for artist Reza Aramesh. Tom also leads educational projects throughout the UK and internationally, working with Sinfonia Viva, all of the UK’s major conservatoires for dance and for National Centres for Advanced Training.

 

Barret Hodgson

Barret is a video artist, projection specialist and digital alchemist. His company, Vent Media, creates and showcases motion graphics, film and interactive media for theatres, dance performances, music events and gallery installations across the UK. Recent collaborations include those with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, choreographer Tom Dale, artist Hetain Patel, writer Michael Eaton and the Lakeside Nottingham and Nottingham Playhouse. Barret studied Fine Arts (BA Hons) at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Collaborative Arts Practice (MA) at Nottingham Trent University.

 

Jemima Brown

 

Jemima Brown was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland where she began her training in ballet, Irish dancing and musical theatre. Before moving to London in 2012, Jemima had the opportunity to work with Hofesh Shechter as part of the U.Dance Ensemble, performing Tank at The Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Hall. 

She went onto study at London Contemporary Dance School, attaining a first class BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance. Throughout her three years of training she worked with many highly acclaimed artists including Crystal Pite, Didy Veldmon, James Cousins and Kerry Nicholls to name a few.

Since graduating, Jemima has worked with Joss Arnott Dance performing a UK tour of 5/0 alongside world-renowned musician Dame Evelyn Glennie. She has also worked with Avant Garde Dance, playing the role of Oliver in Fagin’s Twist  in collaboration with Tony Adigun and The Place. Other projects include work with Sally Marie, Didy Veldmon and Antoine Marc. 

 

Maja Naomi Furnes

Maja was born in Norway and trained in ballet, jazz and contemporary dance. She completed her BA at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Since graduation, Maja has worked in several projects in Norway for TV and stage such as Peer Gynt at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo Dance Ensemble and a community project at the Bærum Kulturhus. 

In 2015 Maja had the opportunity to work for Hofesh Shechter in his young company Shechter II followed by a European tour. After premiering in Paris, the company was awarded the La Grand Prix de la Critique de la Danse. During her time in the company, Maja also had the opportunity to perform alongside the Hofesh Shechter Company at the Royal Opera House in London with Orphée et Eurydice, which later restaged at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 2018. Maja is now performing I Infinite for Tom Dale Company.  

 

About Tom Dale Company

 

Tom Dale Company (TDC) is one of the UK's leading contemporary dance companies. Combining dance, electronic music and digital media, TDC is a leader in the field, producing world-class work which is simultaneously bold, exciting and constantly evolving. Our award-winning participatory activities for young people deliver exceptional transmedia programmes across Nottinghamshire and further afield. The synergy between dance and the digital arts is the major artery pumping through TDC’s practice. It is woven into all our programmes of work. The company’s vision, through its collaborations with the digital arts, is to re-imagine dance. Collaboration is key to our creative process. We explore new ideas, aesthetics and techniques with an exceptional team of dancers, digital artists, electronic musicians, poets, writers, designers and visual artists.

 

 

 

UK Autumn Tour Dates 2018

 

 

 

NIGHT LIGHT,

LEEDS

NORTHERN BALLET THEATRE

4 & 5 October (times TBC)

northernballet.com

 

NEW THEATRE ROYAL, PORTSMOUTH

9 October 6pm, 7.30pm & 9pm

newtheatreroyal.com | 023 9264 9000

 

WARWICK ARTS CENTRE,

COVENTRY

11 & 12 October 10.30am, 7pm & 8.45pm

warwickartscentre.co.uk | 024 7652 4524

 

THE PLACE,

LONDON

16 October 7pm & 8.30pm 17 October 7pm

theplace.org.uk | 0207 121 1100

 

MIDLANDS ARTS CENTRE, BIRMINGHAM

1 & 2 November 11am, 2pm & 6pm

macbirmingham.co.uk | 0121 446 3232

 

MOUNTS BAY ACADEMY,

PENZANCE

4 November 7pm & 8.30pm

www.crbo.co.uk | 01726 879 500

 

EXETER PHOENIX

6 November 7pm & 8.30pm

exeterphoenix.org.uk | 01392 667 080

 

GUILDHALL ARTS CENTRE, GRANTHAM

9 November 11am, 1.30pm & 7pm

guildhallartscentre.com | 01476 406 158

 

THE COUNCIL HOUSE,

NOTTINGHAM

15-17 November 7pm & 8.30pm

dance4.co.uk

 

STRIKE A LIGHT, GLOUCESTER GUILDHALL

20 November 7pm & 8.30pm

strikealightfestival.org.uk

 

 

I INFINITE was originally co-produced by Dance4 with support from Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Déda, DanceDigital and Arts Council England.

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