Recognised internationally, Tom Dale Company leads the field in combining dance, electronic music and digital media, creating category-defying performances which reach into popular culture. The company’s latest solo double bill creates two complementary journeys across the boundary between digital and physical existence. Made in collaboration with Tom Dale’s long term creative associate, digital media artist Barret Hodgson, the CLOUD>BEING/SURGE Double Bill fuses movement, sound and light to create a visually and emotionally immersive audience experience.
Opening the evening, CLOUD>BEING imagines an encounter by a digital intelligence in the physical world. Inside a stark white choreographic laboratory, ideas of gravity, weight, momentum, falling, instability and flow shape the movement language, while projected grids tilt, geometric forms fracture and lines of light create temporary architectures in haze. The choreography shifts between precision and release, control and collapse, creating a strange and compelling physical world in which the dancer and digital environment continually reshape one another.
In SURGE the protagonist is a future human. This ground breaking solo performance created in 2022 brings together live vocals, dynamic movement and cutting-edge projection mapping with an electrifying score by British electronic music producer Ital Tek. Originally performed by Jemima Brown, who won the National Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer for her role, SURGE is a genre-defying experience that will continue to evolve with new performers.
CLOUD>BEING/SURGE Double Bill is touring in 2027 and 2028. SURGE (Open Air) is available for night-light bookings in Outdoor Festivals, also in 2027 and 2028.
Trailers: Surge Cloud>Being Surge (Open Air)
Upcoming tour dates:
16-20 February Glow Festival Weston Supermare SURGE Open Air
19 & 20 March Dance East Ipswich SUPER COLLIDER (including SURGE and CLOUD.BEING)
