“Rise is at one and the same time exhilaratingly beautiful and simmering with danger.” ★★★★★ British Theatre Guide

Five hooded figures cut across society to challenge the twitching landscape that sustains and detains them.

An assault on complacency; RISE is exhilarating, edgy and beautiful, taking the audience into the heart of our claustrophobic communities. Tom Dale’s sinuous and feral choreography combines with music by drum and bass band SION, Berlin based artist POLE, Susumo Yakota, Aphex Twin and reggae superstar, GENTLEMAN to create a performance that is both menacing and touching.

Supported by The Junction, Laban Theatre and Escalator and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Choreography: Tom Dale
Music: Jo Wills and SION
Set Design: Susannah Henry
Lighting Design and Technical Manager: Ben Pacey
Photography: Nuno Santos

“Dale’s edgy work takes the temperature of Britain.” The Guardian

“They move with a meticulous attention to detail that not only grabs the eye, but takes your imagination roaming in thrilling directions.” ★★★★ Mary Brennan, The Herald

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 ad 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…

Supported by Laban Theatre, Dance Digital and DanceXchange and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Choreography: Tom Dale
Music: Sam Shackleton, Jo Wills and Guy Wood
Lighting Design and Technical Manager: Bill Deverson
Photography: Stephen Berkeley-White
Creative Consultant: Rick Holland
Producer: Raj Pardesi and Sarah Sansom

“Enigmatic, intriguing. An exhilarating and powerful performance. The choreography is excellent, no move is wasted and it works well on the long back and body of superb dancer Moynihan.” Gavin Roebuck, The Stage

Lost in a world of their own, a character’s cabin fever and mental loops produce an exhilarating and hypnotic performance.

A startling expressive piece of physical work based on a latent need to ‘let go’, the building up of potential energy and its release. Cabin Fever is a voyeuristic look at how we operate creatively within our confined mental, physical and social realities.

Tom Dale uses investigations of gravity, fragmentation, and sequencing patterns to create explosive, yet relaxed movement forms. Music features as a central part of the company’s work.

Choreography: Tom Dale
Performer: Stephen Moynihan
Photography: Irvin Lewis & Sinan Bozkurt