Running time: 50 minutes
If you want dancers that dance, feel the music and create something exhilarating, beautiful and out of the ordinary, rising star Tom Dale will capture your imagination; cutting between raw, aggressive and visceral movement and refined precision Tom Dale Company creates dynamic and unpredictable dance.
The mind’s eye dies for access to the million chambers we leave unlit, undiscovered in our daily flit for living, a home for the deep-sea fish who glow and sense… Roam.
A captivating journey into a world of swinging sub bass and complex percussion, with specially commissioned tracks from maverick producer/composer Shackleton and drum&bass outfit Sion, ROAM takes as its starting point the human requirement to explore and experience, and incorporates the work of poet Rick Holland.
Life’s roaming pulse is the unstoppable condition in which life finds itself, relentlessly dragging us into the unknown, connecting moment to moment, for survival, inspiration, meaning, distraction… conscious or unconscious.
This is the Company’s second full-evening work – a suite of dances, thematically and musically linked, exploring human motivation to seek out and try to capture inspiration and new opportunities.
Created with support from Laban Theatre, DanceXchange, Dance Digital, The Garrick Charitable Trust and Arts Council England. Roam previewed at DanceXchange in Autumn 2009 and will premiere at Laban Theatre, with live music by Sion, 28 and 29 January 2010.
Tom Dale’s previous show Rise was part of Spring Loaded (The Place, 2008). The Company will premiere a new version of Roam featuring the work of video artists Sophie Clements and Mo Stoebe at The Place in April 2010.
“exhilaratingly beautiful and simmering with danger.”
British Theatre Guide, Rise 2008
“sucks the breath right out of you… continuously inventive choreography.”
Three weeks, Rise 2008
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