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Arts preview: dance installation I Infinite by the Tom Dale Company

Vanessa Yung

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I Infinite is a dance exploration of digital and human space.
Vanessa Yung

 

An audience passively watching a dance performance is a thing of the past, as far as the Tom Dale Company is concerned. Its 2011 multimedia dance installation - a collaboration between dancer-choreographer Dale, digital artist Barret Hodgson and dancer Maria Olga Palliani - invites audience members to share a white, digitally animated space with the performer.

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The solo dancer interacts with a changing environment that features minimal furniture and projections of grids, portraits and graphics on the floor and wall. She is exploring what the company refers to as "the ambiguity between the virtual and the real, as well as the digital and the organic".

" I Infinite is a meditative piece," says Dale, who founded the British company in 2001. "The audience members become a part of the performance, and are free to choose their own perspective.

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"They are given room to create their own experience. They can be near to the performer and see her negotiating the space around them, or watch from a distance and take in the whole scene.

"It's a special experience to see the performer close up, as you can see the control she has, and experience her mastery of movement. The audience also have the chance to become part of an unusual environment."

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