Tom Dale Company - I Infinite

Founded in 2001, Tom Dale Company combines 'pure' dance techniques and street styles to create an edgy 'urban' hybrid movement vocabulary that's been proven to attract and excite new and experienced audiences alike. Though Tom Dale is still a relatively young choreographer, his award-winning work displays a rigour and clarity that's sometimes absent amongst his more 'established' peers. Reflecting his background in electronic music and its various subcultures, his work is always made in collaboration with 'cutting edge' international sound and digital artists -- such as Squarepusher -- and wholeheartedly embraces new technologies.

I Infinite is a new solo designed for a 'white box' gallery space. Part abstract dance, part live art and part video installation (the latter being the only light source used), it explores 'the boundaries between the artificial and the real, the digital and the organic'. Free to roam around the 'immersive' digitally animated environment as they please, audience members will always remain in close proximity to the dancer and able to see refined movements -- veering between robotic isolation and liquid fluidity -- that are often missed in more traditional theatre spaces. Though the performance is relatively short in duration, the video installation can be run for longer periods if required.

'Surprising and unexpected! Beautiful and technically superb'
Audience member

'Highly emotive and original'
Audience member

'Fantastic -- calming, zen-like beauty'
Audience member

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Image © Barret Hodgson

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• Dance_theatre
• Edinburgh_Showcase_2011
• British_Council
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[tomtomdale]

@dantheoriginator The concept was born when A.I was being heavily promoted and we were told our machines would soon be better than us. Pieces like Wayne's Mcgregor's Cyborg and Cunningham's Bjork video "All is full of Love" were around. Ideas of Robotics/ A.I merging with dance are not new, neither are all White pieces! my work is a reaction to all of this and more and is inspired by questioning how the digital world will achieve its ultimate ambitions from its finite perspective. A new concept

[tomtomdale]

@dantheoriginator youtube pundits should get out there and dare to offer something to the world

[dantheoriginator]

This piece really reminded me of something, now i recall what it was. It is Darren Johnstons Southbank commission Genormporphia, which featured a dancer in a white cut up costume, dancing with her own avatar and digital renditions in a white space. In a past interview Johnston is also quoted as saying "It may sound self-indulgent, but basically I create the type of work I want to watch". Tom Dale was mimicking the work of Hofesh 2 years ago. I think this guy really needs to find his own voice.