SUB:VERSION
Ten dance sketches: bold and bristling with the urgency of undiluted connection to WEN’s experimental club music.
TDC’s new group piece for 2023 will be an elegant selection of dance work that weaves a hypnotic journey through an array of electronic music sub-genres using WEN’s album EPHEM:ERA –“a sophomore album study on the mercurial warp and weft of modern UK dance music” Boomkat
Listen to the music here: https://wen-music.bandcamp.com/album/ephem-era
SUB:VERSION CREATIVE TEAM:
Concept: Tom Dale
Choreography: Tom Dale in collaboration with Dan Baines, Jemima Brown, Tom O’Gorman and Meghan Stevens
Lighting Design: Andrew Ellis
Music: WEN from the album EPHEM:ERA
Rehearsal Director: Sophie Thorpe
Autumn 2023 Tour Performers: Jemima Brown, John Ross, Orla Hardie and Alex Gosmore
Original Performers: Dan Baines, Jemima Brown, Tom O’Gorman, Rose Ellen Lewis, Meghan Stevens
Photo Credit: Alice Underwood
Production Manager: Chris Flux
“Drifting between club and spaced–out after party Dale’s choreography absorbs elements from
hip–hop, popping and the looseness and bounce of house dance, as if torsos are tossed in the
air causing ribs and shoulders to separate then all fall and stack back together.
Limbs fly like a 3D spirograph and blur in the light.”
THE GUARDIAN: ****
“It is Brown whose every movement draws the eye. You would watch her fold laundry, mix a cocktail,
or creosote a fence. Brava”
FINANCIAL TIMES ****
“SUB:VERSION is a celebration of dance itself, deceptively simple but
meticulously assembled and performed by a group of dancers perfectly
attuned to Tom Dale’s vision”
CULTURE WHISPER ****
SPRING 2024 Tour Venues
Tuesday 27th February 2024
Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
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Thursday 29th February 2024
Bath Spa University, Bath
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Friday 22nd March 2024
Barnsley Civic Theatre, Barnsley
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Thursday 2nd May 2024
Dance City, Newcastle
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Wednesday 15th May 2024
Curve, Leicester
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Autumn 2023 Tour Venues
Performers: Jemima Brown, John Ross, Orla Hardie and Alex Gosmore
Friday 13th October 2023
Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth
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Tuesday 14th November 2023
Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter
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Friday 17th November 2023
Dance East, Ipswich
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Saturday 25th November 2023
Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester – PRISM: Winter Festival of Music and Light
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Spring 2023 Tour Venues
SUB: VERSION premiered in Spring 2023 and toured venues in the UK as follows:
Friday 17 March & Saturday 18 March 2023 – PREMIERE
Lakeside Arts Centre Nottingham
Tuesday 21st March 2023 – PRESS NIGHT
The Place, London
Friday 24 March 2023
South Holland Arts Centre, Spalding
Tuesday 28th March 2023
Riverhead Theatre, Louth
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull
Thursday 27 April 2023
Taliesin, Swansea
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford