Digitopia
“Consistently engaging, handsomely designed, imagination-triggering piece.” ****
Donald Hutera, The TimesWINNER: THEATRE & TECHNOLOGY AWARDS 2017
Tom Dale Company in partnership with MOKO Dance present
Suitable for 5 to 12 year olds and their families.
AVAILABLE FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TOURING FROM SPRING 2019
Contact Claire Summerfield
Dotty’s friend Hex is a simple two-dimensional line. He can make angles and the most he can make is six. His favourite shape is a hexagon. He’s happy with this, but one day he really wants to make a curve. With a lot of effort he learns to bend, then multiply, and suddenly he can create all kinds of shapes, eventually popping into three dimensions, discovering he can turn into anything he wants to. Join Dotty and Hex in this fantastical wonderland for a rollercoaster ride of digital surprises
Tom Dale Company creates extraordinary performances that bring together urban contemporary dance, electronic music and digital art.
Digitopia’s visually stunning integration of live dance and digital technology creates a world that defies the usual rules of gravity and physics, where straight lines curve and sound is seen.
Performance running time: approximately 50 minutes, followed by a 30 minute ‘Stay & Play’ session on stage, exploring dance and technology. Suitable for 5-10 year olds.
Choreography: Tom Dale
Performers: Joshua Smith & Maria Olga Palliani
Digital Media Artist: Barret Hodgson
Interactive Media Artist: Noel Murphy
Composer: Jo Wills
Set & Costume Design: Simon Daw
Lighting Designer: Richard Statham
Producer: Claire Summerfield
Dramaturg: Andy Manley
Digitopia was commissioned by MOKO Dance in association with Warwick Arts Centre. Supported by Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Dance4, Lincolnshire One Venues and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Initial research and development supported by Triggered@Warwick Arts Centre.
Digitopia is produced by Tom Dale Company.
PREVIOUS TOUR DATES
2017
Hangzhou
2-4 May
Sparks Children’s Festival
Xintandi Festival, Shanghai
29 – 31 May
The Curve, Leicester
23 – 24 May
2016
PREMIERE
Nottingham Lakeside Arts
12 – 13 February
South Holland Centre, Spalding
16 February
Lincoln Drill Hall
18 February
Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth
21 February
Warwick Arts Centre
26, 27, 28 February
DanceEast, Ipswich
4 – 5 March
2016 cont.
Key Theatre, Peterborough
8 March
Gulbenkian, Canterbury
13 March
Déda, Derby
19 March
Sadler’s Wells, London
25 – 26 March
Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
29 March
Dance City, Newcastle
31 March
ARC, Stockton-on-Tees
2 April
artsdepot, London
5 April
The Old Market, Hove
7 April
Cambridge Junction
10 April
Lumieres Festival
Shanghai, China
9-11 December