about us

Tom Dale Company exists to push boundaries, merging dance and digital arts to create bold, immersive performance experiences. Founded in 2010 by choreographer and Artistic Director Tom Dale, the company is known for its experimental approach, blending contemporary movement with cutting-edge technology to challenge perceptions of space, body, and reality.

Renowned for bringing together innovative teams of creatives, Tom explores the intersection of contemporary dance and digital art, producing groundbreaking performance works across diverse settings.

The company’s critically acclaimed productions include Rise, I Infinite, Refugees of the Septic Heart, Step Sonic, and Digitopia, which won the award for Outstanding Production at the UK Theatre and Technology Awards. More recently, SURGE received 4 and 5-star national reviews and won a National Dance Award for Jemima Brown’s Outstanding Performance.

Tom is a graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he was honored with the Centre’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography. He danced with leading choreographers and companies, including Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, before dedicating himself to his own artistic practice.

Where Dance Meets the Digital.

Our award-winning participatory activities for young people deliver exceptional transmedia programmes across Nottinghamshire and further afield.

The synergy between dance and the digital arts is the major artery pumping through TDC’s practice. It is woven into all our programmes of work. The Company’s vision, through its collaborations with the digital arts, is to re-imagine dance.

We aim to:

Build partnerships and collaborations that seek to advance the nature of dance and technology.

Build partnerships that seek to develop the models of presenting and showcasing dance.
Identify and secure relationships with iconic buildings in the UK to further explore projection mapping.
Explore the heart within technological advancement, recognising the potential value of it on our connection to humanity and nature.
Use dance as a tool to contribute to, and/or advance, social justice.
Support the artistic advancement of dancers, and other artists by creating opportunities, supporting CPD.
Support the growth and development of the next generation of professional dancers in the Nottinghamshire community and beyond.