About
Tom Dale Company creates collaborative performance work through dance with the aim of creating a unique and rich form of expression to reach out and excite new audiences. Innovative worlds of performance are created as the company craft work that is woven into the fabric of our times.
What we do
- Create collaborative performance work through dance
- Reach out and excite new audiences
- Invent unique and rich forms of expression
- Specialise in choreography/ movement direction/ performance
- Create innovative worlds of performance
- Create original music
- Offer creative dance/movement workshops, classes and courses
Who we are
The Company was founded in 2001 by award winning dancer and choreographer, Tom Dale. Tom grew up in Essex during the nineties in a culture, which produced a prolific amount of musicians. An involvement in electronic music encouraged Tom to seek out a career in dance. Tom was awarded a scholarship to train at Laban London where he won the Centre’s award for outstanding achievement in choreography 1998. His own choreographic work includes, Eddystone Raver, created to unreleased music by Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, which was broadcast on BBC2, and stage pieces including RISE (his most recent touring work), I Infinite, Dual and Spheres. Tom is also regularly commissioned by other artists and organisations to create original dance and movement based pieces.
Alongside his company work, he has danced with a number of leading choreographers including Fin Walker, Jochen Heckman, Barak Marshall, Philippe Girardeau, Tom Roden, Chris Tudor and Matthew Bourne. In 2006 he was a semi-finalist for the prestigious Place Prize with, Whose Futures.
Tom comes from a backgound in electronic music and its various subcultures, this is obvious in his work however he has a passion for an eclectic mix of musical genres which always forms part of the company’s creative process.